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PUBLISHED  BY  AUTHORITY  OF  THE  CITY  GOVERNMENT, 

FEBRUARY,  1884.  ,^ 


HAETEOED : 

Peess  of  The  Fowler  &  Miller  Co.,  341  Main  Street. 

1884. 


PREFACE. 


May  23, 1881,  a  committee,  consisting  of  His  Honor  the  Mayor  (Hon.  Morgan 
O.  Bulkeley),  the  City  Attorney  (S.  C.  Dunham,  Esq.),  Messrs.  Henry  E.  Taintor 
and  George  W.  Fowler  from  the  Board  of  Aldermen,  and  Messrs.  John  H. 
Brocklesby  and  Nelson  G.  Hinckley  from  the  Council  Board,  were  duly 
appointed  to  prepare  for  publication  a  new  edition  of  the  Charter  and  Ordi- 
nances, and  to  take  into  consideration  that  portion  of  the  Mayor's  message 
having  reference  to  consolidation  of  town  and  city  governments,  and  report 
what  proceedings  were  necessary  for  the  completion  of  the  project.  Acting 
under  subsequent  instructions,  said  committee  prepared  and  submitted  to  the 
General  Assembly  a  draft  of  a  new  Charter  containing  provisions  for  the  con- 
solidation of  town  and  city  governments.  This  Charter,  with  some  amendments 
and  alterations,  was  passed  by  the  General  Assembly  at  its  January  session, 
1882,  but  was  not  adopted  when  submitted  to  the  people  for  approval  in  June, 
1882. 

After  this  result  was  reached,  the  committee,  through  a  sub-committee, 
Messrs.  Taintor  and  Brocklesby,  and  the  then  City  Attorney,  Samuel  0.  Pren- 
tice, Esq.,  directed  their  attention  to  the  publication  of  the  new  edition  of  the 
Charter  and  Ordinances.  In  doing  this,  it  has  been  their  endeavor  to  collect 
and  arrange  in  form  for  convenient  reference  all  amendments  to  the  Charter, 
and  all  general  and  special  laws  having  reference  to  the  powers  and  duties  of 
cities  and  their  officers;  also,  to  revise  the  ordinances,  incorporating  in  the 
proper  place  those  passed  since  last  revision,  and  omitting  such  as  have  been 
repealed  ;  and  they  have  also  prepared  a  new  index  to  the  volume. 

The  decisions  of  our  Supreme  Court  have  been  extensively  consulted,  and 
very  many  cases  bearing  upon  municipal  rights  and  responsibilities  will  be 
found  in  the  foot-notes,  under  their  appropriate  heads. 

Believing  it  was  not  their  province  to  legislate,  they  have  carefully  refrained 
from  changing  or  modifying  existing  ordinances,  seeking  rather  to  give,  in 
compact  form,  the  law  as  it  has  been  enacted  by  the  present  and  previous 
councils.  They  have  aimed  to  prepare  a  book  that  shall  be  accurate,  convenient 
for  use,  and  with  an  index  furnishing  ready  means  of  reference  to  the  topics 
included  in  the  volume. 


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VI  PREFACE. 

In  the  references,  in  side  and  foot  notes,  the  General  Statutes  of  Connecticut 
have  been  indicated  by  the  letters  R.  S. ;  public  laws  by  the  letters  P.  A. ;  and 
private  laws  by  the  letters  S.  A.  Except  when  otherwise  noted,  the  reference 
to  the  General  Statutes  has  been  to  the  revision  of  1875. 

An  extract  from  the  preface  to  the  Revision  of  Charter  and  Ordinances  of 
1873,  containing  facts  of  historical  interest,  has  been  reproduced. 

In  a  work  involving  a  compilation  from  so  many  different  sources,  some 
errors  and  omissions  have  been  unavoidable,  but  the  committee  submit  the 
result  of  their  labors  in  the  hope  that  reasonable  completeness  and  accuracy 
have  been  attained. 

For  the  committee, 

MORGAN  G.  BULKELEY, 

Chairman. 


EXTRACT  FROM  PREFACE  OF  REVISION  OF  1873. 

The  territory  now  contained  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  Hartford  was 
first  settled  in  the  year  1635  by  a  party  of  English  settlers  from  Massachusetts, 
which,  forming  a  nucleus  at  Hartford  and  passing  through  the  various  stages  of 
growth,  in  the  seventeenth  century  had  become  the  Town  of  Hartford.  In  the 
year  1784,  by  a  vote  of  the  town,' a  committee  was  appointed  to  draft  a  memorial 
to  the  General  Assembly  asking  for  incorporate  powers,  and  on  the  29th  of  May, 
1784,  a  charter  was  granted,  incorporating  as  the  City  of  Hartford,  the  territory 
which  is  now  the  center  of  the  city.  The  original  bounds  were  determined 
chiefly  by  the  residences  of  citizens,  now  changed  or  lost  from  sight  in  the 
progress  of  the  last  century.  In  the  year  1810,  the  earliest  available  record  of 
the  population  of  the  city,  it  is  stated  to  be  3,955.  Later,  in  the  year  1821,  a  new 
charter,  combining  the  various  powers  added  up  to  this  time,  was  granted  by 
the  General  Assembly,  preserving  nearly  the  former  limits. 

In  1853  the  city  limits  were  enlarged,  and  in  1859  the  present  city  charter 
was  granted,  embodying  in  substance  all  powers  before  possessed,  and  later,  in 
1871,  the  city  limits  were  extended  on  the  south  so  as  to  be  co-extensive  with 
the  southern  limits  of  the  Town  of  Hartford.  The  powers  granted  in  the  origi- 
nal charter  were  few  and  exceedingly  guarded,  and  all  ordinances  permitted  to 
be  passed  were,  as  late  as  the  charter  of  1859,  made  repealable  by  the  Superior 
Court,  if,  upon  a  hearing,  the  same  should  be  found  unreasonable.  By  the 
charter  of  1784  the  present  City  Court  was  created,  and  the  mayor  and  the  two 
senior  aldermen  were  constituted  its  judges,  and  so  remained  until  the  year 
1836,  when  the  office  of  recorder  was  created.  By  the  charter  of  1821,  equity 
jurisdiction  was  first  conferred  upon  the  City  Court,  and  has  since  been  extended 
so  as  to  embrace  (except  relief  from  judgments  of  the  Superior  Court)  all  causes 
in  equity  arising  within  the  limits  of  the  city.  The  state  constitution  adopted 
in  1818  preserved  the  rights  before  vested  in  corporations,  thus  leaving  the 
ancient  rights  vested  in  this  tribunal  at  least,  until  a  new  amendment  beyond 
the  reach  of  legislative  enactment. 

The  mayor  was  originally  chosen  by  the  freemen  of  the  city,  and  held  his 
office  during  the  pleasure  of  the  General  Assembly,  until  1825,  when  the  office 
of  mayor  was  fixed  for  the  term  of  two  years,  and  has  since  so  remained.  The 
criminal  jurisdiction  of  the  city  remained  in  justices  of  the  peace  in  the  town 
until  the  year  1851,  when  the  present  Police  Court  was  established,  taking  to 
itself  exclusive  jurisdiction  within  the  limits  of  the  city.  Before  the  adoption 
of  the  charter  of  1859,  certain  water  debts  and  other  obligations  of  the  city  had 
been  created,  and  were  by  the  charter  confirmed  and  left  obligatory  on  the  city, 
some  of  which  are  now  outstanding. 


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C  H AE  TEE 


OF  THE 


CITY   OF  HARTFOBD, 


ACCEPTED  SEPTEMBER  3d,  1859. 


AN  ACT  TO  ALTER  THE  CHARTER  OF  THE  CITY  OF 
HARTFORD,  AND  TO  COMBINE  SUNDRY  PUBLIC 
STATUTES  'relating    THERETO. 


SECTION  I. 


Territorial  limits.  1  Corporate  name. 

Property  exempt  from  full  taxation.         I  Jurisdiction  and  Powers. 

Section  1.  The  territorial  limits  of  the  body  politic  and  TorruoHai  limits. 
corporate  heretofore  existing  under  the  name  of  "The 
Mayor,  Aldermen  and  Common  Council,  and  Freemen,  of 
the  City  of  Hartford,"  shall  hereafter  be  the  following:^ 
the  north  line  of  said  city  shall  commence  at  a  point  on  the 
east  bank  of  the  north  fork  of  Park  river,  seven  hundred 
feet  due  north  of  the  north  line  of  Albany  turnpike  road; 
thence  run  due  east  to  Connecticut  river;  the  west  line  of 
said  city  shall  commence  at  the  first  named  point,  and  run 
thence  southward  along  said  bank  of  said  north  fork,  inclos- 
ing a  small  island  formed  by  a  division  of  said  fork,  to  the 
westerly  lino   of  the  Hartford   and  New   Haven  railroad; 

1  Amended,  1871.    See  page  39 ;  1873,  page  40 ;  1881,  page  41. 


CITY   CHARTER. 


Property  exempt 
from  full  taxation. 


thence  continuing  due  south,  across  said  Park  river,  to  the 
east  bank  of  the  south  fork  thereof;  thence  along  said  east 
bank  and  the  east  bank  of  the  east  branch  of  said  south  fork 
to  a  point  two  hundred  and  fifty  feet  due  south  of  the  south 
line  of  the  'New  Britain  road  (so  called) ;  the  south  line  of 
the  said  city  shall  run  from  the  point  last  described,  east  to 
Connecticut  river;  and  said  river  shall  be  the  east  boundary 
of  said  city :  provided  always,  that  no  city  tax^  exceeding  two 
cents  on  a  dollar  of  the  grand  list,  shall  be  assessed  or  levied 
upon  any  land  or  lands  within  the  territory  added  to  said 
city  by  virtue  of  this  act,  so  long  as  said  land  is  or  shall  be 
used  exclusively  for  farming  purposes,  or  is  vacant  and  unoc- 
cupied land ;  and  that  all  farming  produce,  and  all  stock  used 
in  farming,  and  all  implements  of  husbandry,  belonging  to 
persons  residing  on  said  territory  so  annexed,  shall  be  exempt 
in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent  from  such  city 

^'nland^e'^autes^are  taxatlou  I  aud,  jprovidcd  also,  that  the  persons  now  and  here- 

t^n  foj-^bonded  and  aftcr  rcsldiug  on  said  territory  so  added  to  said  city,  and  the 
estate  of  such  persons,  both  real  and  personal,  shall  not  be  \ 
liable  by  taxation  or  in  any  other  mode,  for  any  bonded  debt 
of  said  city,  or  for  interest  on  the  same,  or  for  any  part  of 
the  present  indebtedness  of  said  city  on  account  of  the  city 
park,  provided  that  this  act  shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to 
exempt  from  liability  any  property  invested  in  business  in 
said  city  and  now  liable  to  taxation  for  said  city  debt.  All 
the  inhabitants  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  being  electors 
thereof,  dwelling  within  said  limits,  shall  continue  forever 
hereafter,  to  be  a  body  politic  and  corporate,  in  fact  and  in 

Corporate  name,     uauic,  by  thc  uamc  of  "  The  City  OF  Hartford  ;"  and  that 
by  that  name  they  and  their  successors  shall  and  may  have 

Powers.  perpetual  succession,  and  be  persons  in  law,  capable  of  suing 

and  being  sued,  pleading  and  being  impleaded,  in  all  suits  of 
what  nature  soever;  and  also  to  purchase,  hold,  and  convey 
any  estate,  real  and  personal ;  and  may  have  a  common  seal, 
and  may  change  and  alter  the  same  at  pleasure ;  and  shall  be 
electors  of  said  city;  and  by  virtue  of  this  act,  shall  become 


I 


2  Amended, 
page  41. 


See  page  166;  1867,  page  167;  1871,  page  89;  1873,  page  40;  1881, 


CITY   CHARTER. 


3 


and  be  absolutely  yested  with,  possess,  and  enjoy,  all  the 

lands,  tenements,  hereditaments,  property  and  rights,  choses 

in   action,   and    estate    whatsoever,    which    since   the   time 

of  the  original  incorporation  of  said  city  have  become  vested 

in  the  inhabitants  of  said  city  in  their  corporate  capacity,  and 

which  in  that  capacity  are  still  vested  in  and  belong  to  said 

inhabitants,  that  is  to  say,  in  the  said  city;  and  said  city 

shall  have  jurisdiction  in  civil  and  commercial  matters  on  the  furisTcS"'''''^ 

Connecticut  river  opposite  the  town  of  Hartford;  and  the 

marshal  and  deputy  marshals  of  said  city  shall  have  authority 

to  execute  legal  process  on  said  river  opposite  said  town ;  it 

being  provided,  that  said  city  shall  in  no  manner  regulate^  or 

interfere  with  the  navigation  thereof,  or  impose  any  tax,  toll, 

or  duty,  on  the  commerce  upon  said  river. 


SECTION  II. 


Annual  meeMngs ;  when  and  where  held. 

Number  of  Wards. 

Mayor ;  when  and  how  chosen. 

Powers  and  terms  of  office. 

City  Marshal;   when  and  how  chosen 

and  powers. 
City  Clerk,  when  and  how  chosen  and 

duties. 
City  Treasurer;  when  and  how  chosen 

and  powers. 


Water  Commissioners;  when  and  how 

chosen  and  term  of  office. 
City  Collector;    when  and  how  chosen 

and  duties. 
City  Auditor;  when  and  how  chosen. 
Aldermen  and  Common    Councilmen; 

when  chosen,  and  term  of  office. 
Vacancy  on  tie  vote ;  how  filled. 


Annual  meetings  of  said  city  (except  the  first)  shall  be  Annual  cuy  mcei- 
held  at  such  times  and  places  as  the  ordinances  thereof  shall 
direct ;  and  shall  be  held  in  wards  into  which  said  city  shall 
be  divided  by  its  ordinances ;  the  number  of  which  wards  wards,  number  of. 
shall  not  exceed  seven. ^     And  at  such  annual  meetings  there 
shall  be  chosen  by  said  city,  by  a  plurality  of  ballots,  a  mayor,  ^^^H^'^*'^''^  '^^ 
who  shall  be  the  chief  executive  officer  of  said  city,  and 
conservator  of  the  jjcace  therein,  and  have  for  that  purpose. 


3  Amended.    See  page  55. 

1  Amended,  1869.    See  pag^  42;  1871,  page  39;  1873,  page  40;  1876,  page  45;  1881, 
page  42. 


CITY   CHARTER. 


Term  of  office. 


City  marshal ;  and 
powers  of. 


Deputy  marshals. 
City  clerk. 


City  treasurer. 


Water  oommis- 
siouer. 


Collector. 
Auditor. 


Aldermen  and  com- 
mon councilnien ; 
how  chosen ;  term 
of  ofiBce. 


and  especially  for  the  suppression  of  riots  and  tumults  within 
the  limits  of  said  city,  all  the  powers  of  a  sheriff  of  the 
county  of  Hartford,  including  due  authority  to  raise 
the  power  of  the  county  and  the  militia  thereof,  which 
authority  shall  be  obeyed  in  the  same  manner  and  under  the 
same  penalties  as  that  of  sheriffs  in  like  cases ;  and  the  mayor 
shall  also  have  all  the  j)Ower  necessary  to  the  due  execution 
of  the  ordinances  of  said  city,  when  in  such  ordinance  he 
shall  be  directed  to  execute  the  same;  and  he  shall  hold 
his  office  for  two  years,  and  until  his  successor  shall  be 
chosen ;  a  city  marshal,"  who  shall  have  within  the  limits  oi 
said  city  the  same  power  and  authority  as  sheriffs  of  counties, 
and  be  liable  for  neglect  of  duty  in  the  same  manner;  and 
shall  in  case  of  riots  within  said  city,  be  subject  to  the 
direction  of  the  mayor ;  and  said  marshal  shall  be  empowered 
to  appoint  deputy  marshals,  with  like  power,  not  exceeding 
two  in  number;  a  clerk,^  who  shall  record  all  the  votes  and 
proceedings  of  said  city,  and  whose  records  shall  have  like 
validity,''  as  evidence  and  otherwise,  with  those  of  town 
clerks ;  a  treasurer,  who  shall  have  the  same  power  and  au- 
thority as  town  treasurers,  and  shall  be  accountable  to  said 
city ;  a  water  commissioner,^  who  shall  hold  his  office  for  four 
years  from  the  time  of  his  election ;  a  collector,*  who  shall  col- 
lect all  taxes  imposed  by  said  city;  and  an  auditor  of  city 
accounts.  At  the  annual  meeting  of  said  city,  holden 
next  after  this  act  shall  take  effect,  to  wit,  on  the  second 
Monday  of  April,  A.  D.  1860,  for  the  choice  of  the  aforesaid 
officers,  there  shall  be  chosen,  by  plurality  vote  in  each  ward, 
from  among  the  electors  entitled  to  vote  therein,  two  alder- 
men and  four  common  councilmen  ;  and  ouc  of  said  aldermen 


a  Marshal  may  serve  within  the  city  processes  returnable  to  other  courts.  Dow  v. 
Kelley,  1  Root,  552. 

2  Clerk  pro  tempore.    See  page  47. 

b  Clerk  may  at  any  time  while  in  oflace  correct  his  record.  Boston  Turnpike  Co. 
V.  Pomfret,  20  Conn.,  590. 

Record  can  not  be  affected  by  parol  evidence  in  collateral  proceeding.  Gilbert  v. 
New  Haven,  40  Conn.,  102. 

Records  amended  only  by  Clerk  in  office  or  by  Court  upon  mandamus.  Samis  v. 
King,  40  Conn.,  298. 

3  See  post,  Section  XXIV,  page  27.    Amended,  1865.    See  page  52 ;  1872,  page  53. 

4  Amended,  1878.    See  page  170 :  see  page  171. 


CITY   CHARTER. 

( Iiosen  in  each  ward  shall  hold  office  for  one  year,  and  the 
other  for  two  years,  and  until  their  successors  arc  chosen  and 
qualified  ;  and  in  case  of  a  tie  vote,  the  vacancy  in  the  office  yotcThow  filled, 
of  alderman  or  common  councilman,  shall  be  filled  at  a  new 
election  to  be  held  on  the  next  day,  for  the  special  purpose  of 
filling  such  vacancy;  and  at  all  subsequent  annual  meetings 
held  for  the  choice  of  the  aforesaid  officers,  there  shall  be 
chosen,  as  aforesaid,  in  each  ward,  one  alderman  and  four 
common  councilmen;  and  such  alderman  shall  hold  his  office  Terms  or  oAice. 
for  two  years,  and  until  his  successor  shall  be  chosen  and 
qualified.  And  all  the  aforesaid  officers,  whose  term  is  not 
hereinbefore  prescribed,  shall  hold  office  for  one  year,  and 
until  others  are  chosen  and  qualified  in  their  stead. 


SECTION  III. 

Qualifications  of  Voters. 

■Every  elector  of  the  State,  residing  in  said  city,  at  the  time  Kiectors  must  reside 
"J  7  O  ./  '  in  the  city  four 

of  any  city  meeting,  and  who  shall  have  resided  in  said  city  """'•*'• 

four  months  next  preceding  the  day  of  said  meeting,  may 

vote  in  such  meeting :  provided  always^  that  no  person  not 

lei^ally  settled  in  the  town  of  Hartford,  shall  vote  in  city  umess  resident  of 

~        «/  T  J     town,  must  reside 

meeting  until  he  shall  have  resided  in  said  city  one  year  next  ""'^ y*''^'" •" "*'>• 

preceding  the  day  of  said  meeting :  and  provided  further^  that 

no  person  shall  vote  in  any  ward  meeting,  held  for  the  choice 

of  city  officers,  unless  he  shall  have  resided  in  such  ward  M«»ft  reside  in  ward 

«/  "  sixty  days. 

sixty  days  next  preceding  the  day  of  said  ward  meeting.     If 

any  person,  otherwise  qualified  to  vote  in  said  city  meeting, 

shall  have  removed  from   one  ward  to  another  within  said  fj^™" dayl;' wh"re 

sixty  days,  he  shall  be  entitled  to  vote  in  the  ward  in  which  '"""'*'■ 

he  last  resided  before  his  removal.^ 

1  Amended,  1877.    See  page  75. 


C^TY    CHARTER. 


SECTION  IV. 


Duties  of  City  Clerk. 
Duties  of  Presiding  Officer  of  Ward  meet- 
ings. 


Penalty  for  false  swearing. 


pareaHsVoi  city  ^lie  clcrk  of  tho  Citj  of  Hai'tford  shall,  during  the  Avoek 
next  preceding  the  time  of  holding  any  annual  city  meeting 
for  the  choice  of  city  officers  of  said  city,  prepare  a  list,  as 
nearly  perfect  as  is  practicable,  of  the  names  of  all  persons 
entitled  to  vote  in  each  and  every  ward  in  said  city,  at  the 
said  city  meeting,  and  of  the  street  in  which  each  such 
person  resides,  and  the  number  of  location  of  his  residence  in 
such  street,  which  names  shall  be  duly  arranged  in  alphabetic 
cal  order ;  for  which  service  said  city  clerk  shall  be  paid  a  I 

Compensation  of  rcasouablc  compcusatiou  from  the  city  treasury;  and  any 
elector  of  such  city  shall  be  entitled  to  demand  and  receive 
of  such  city  clerk  a  copy  of  any  list  so  made  as  aforesaid,  on 
paying  therefor  the  same  fees  as  town  clerks  are  by  law  enti- 
tled to  receive  for  copies  of  records.     The  presiding  officer  of 

Ward  meetiugs,  aud  cvcrv  Ward  mccting  may  receive  the  votes  of  all  persons 

duties  of  presiding  ^  o  ./  X 

°®'='"'-  whose  names  are  on  the  ward  list  prepared  as  aforesaid,  un- 

less the  right  of  any  such  person  to  vote  at  said  ward 
meeting  is  challenged ;  and  if  any  person  whose  name  is  not 
on  said  list  shall  offer  to  vote  at  said  meeting,  such  person 

Persons  not  allowed  ghall  thercupou  bc  rcQuired  to  inform  the  presidini^  officer  oi 

to  vote  lu  certain  ^  ■'■  x  o 

'"*"'^'  said  ward  meeting  of  the  street  in  which  he  resides,  and  th< 

number  or  location  of  his  residence  in  such  street,  and  th( 
said  presiding  officer,  if  of  the  opinion  that  the  person  sc 
offering  to  vote  is  legally  entitled  so  to  do,  shall- thereupoi 
see  that  the  name  of  such  person,  and  of  said  street,  and  sai( 
number  or  location  is  entered  upon  said  list,  and  may  thei 
receive  his  vote,  unless  the  right  of  such  person  so  to  vote  is' 
challenged.  In  case  any  person  offering  to  vote  at  any  such 
ward  meeting,  shall  have  willfully  refused  to  furnish  to  the 
city  cler]?,  or  to  the  proper  presiding  officer,  full  and  satisfac- 
tory information  of  his  name,  the  street  in  which  he  resides, 
and  the  number  or  location  of  his  residence,  said  presiding 


CITY   CHARTER.  7 

I  >tficer  shall  not  allow  such  "person  to  cast  his  vote  at  such 
meeting.  If  the  vote  of  any  person  shall  be  challenged  as 
aforesaid,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  presiding  officer,  before 
rc'ceivins;  such  vote,  if  thereto  requested  by  the  challenger,  Presiding omcer 

^  '  X  J  O       ;  jnay  administer 

lo  administer  an  oath  to  the  person  oifering  to  vote,  and  to  *"''''• 

make  due  inquiry  into  the  right  of  such  person  to  vote,  and 

to  hear  and  determine  such  challenge;  and  if  of  the  opinion 

1  hat  such  person  is  entitled  to  vote  at  such  ward  meeting,  to 

rause  his  name  and  residence  to  be  registered  as  aforesaid, 

and  to  receive  his  vote.     Any  person  who  shall  be  guilty  of  f^*^f,t7t^^'"]j;«.^"'^ 

willful  false  swearing,  when  examined  as  aforesaid,  by  any  '^''°*"'^'  ^'"'' 

presiding  officer,  shall  be  liable  to  the  penalties  of  perjury; 

and  if  any  person  not  under  oath  shall  willfully  give  a  false 

statement  when  so  examined  by  the  presiding  officer,  relative 

to  the  right  of  himself  or  any  other  person  to  vote,  he  shall 

ibrfeit  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars  to  the  treasury  of  the  State.^ 


I 


SECTION  V. 

Duties  of  Presiding  Oflacer  of  Ward  Meetings. 


Such  presiding  officer  shall  check  or  cause  to  be  checked  and^l°turne^d*'to''?he 
the  name  of  each  person  voting  at  such  ward  meeting,  at  the  ^'^^  "''"■'' ''•""''^• 
time  his  vote  shall  be  received,  and  shall  erase  or  cause  to  be 
erased  from  said  list  the  name  of  every  person  who  shall  be 
found  not  entitled  to  vote  at  such  ward  meeting,  in  manner 
aforesaid;  and  within  twenty-four  hours  after  the  final 
adjournment  of  said  meeting,  the  said  list,  with  the  marks 
and  checks  thereon,  shall,  by  such  presiding  officer,  be  lodged 
in  the  office  of  the  city  clerk,  where  the  same  shall  be  kept 
on  file,  and  carefully  preserved.^ 

1  Amended,  1877.    See  page  79. 
1  Amended,  1877.    See  page  76. 


OITY    CHARTER. 


SECTION  VI. 


Court  of  Common  Council;   how  com- 
posed ;  powers  of. 
Vote  of;  subject  to  approval  by  Mayor. 


Vote  appropriating  more  than  ten  thou- 
sand dollars  invalid. 


What  Court  of  Com-       ThcrG  shall  bo  a  court  of  common  council  of  said  citv, 

mon  Council  shall  J  ' 

consist  of.  which  shall  consist  of  two  separate  branches,  a  board  of 

aldermen  and  the  common  council  board,  who  shall  convene 
separately,  except  in  the  cases  hereinafter  sjiecified,  and  in 

Powers  of.  whom  shall  be  vested  the  government,  control,  and  manage- 

ment of  said  city,  its  property  and  its  affairs,  subject  to  the 
exceptions  hereinafter  set  forth.  The  board  of  aldermen 
shall  be  composed  of  all  the  aldermen  of  said  city,  and  the 
common  council  board  of  all  the  common  councilmen  of  said 

Each  board  judges   cltv  I   and  cach  branch  of  said  court  shall  be  final  judsre  of 

of  election  of  its  "^    '  JO 

members.  ^^   elcctiou  rctums,  and  validity  of  elections  and   qualifi- 

cations of  its  own  members.     Every  vote,  resolution,  ordi- 

Mayor's  approval  of  uaucc,  or  by-law  lu  the  passage  of  which  both  the  branches 
of  said  court  shall  have  concurred  by  a  majority  of  each, 
shall  be  submitted  to  the  mayor  for  his  approval ;  and  if  not 
by  him  disapproved,  the  same  shall  become  valid  and  effectual 

hiw  pSedf  °"'^'  ^^  ^  corporate  act  of  said  city ;  if  disapproved,  the  same  shall 
be  by  him  returned  to  the  next  court  of  common  council, 
each  board  of  which  shall  thereupon  reconsider  the  vote, 
resolution,  ordinance,  or  by-law,  and  if  a  majority  of  each 
board  shall  thereupon  concur  in  again  adopting  or  enacting 
the  same,  it  shall  thereupon  become  a  valid,  corporate  act ;  it 

JlTo"^"'*'^"""''*^  being  expressly  provided,  that  no  vote  or  resolution  of  said 
common  council,  ordering  a  public  work  or  improvement 
which  shall  require  an  expenditure  of  more  than  ten  thou- 

pro ved  by™! tj^ote  ^^^^  dollars,  shall  be  obligatory  on  said  city,  unless  approved 

by  ballot.  i^y  ^   majority  vote  of   a   city  meeting,  duly  warned   and 

holden  for  that  purpose ;  which  vote  shall  be  by  ballot.* 

»  Applies  only  to  improvements  which  affect  the  public  at  large  and  are  paid  for 
by  the  city.   Park  Ecclesiastical  Society  d  al.  v.  Hartford,  47  Conn.,  89. 


i- 


CITY   CHARTER.  9 

SECTION  VII. 
EEPEALEB. 

See  substitute  act,  imge  96.^ 

SECTION  VIII. 

What  ordinances  Common  Council  may  I  Violation  of  ordinances ;  what  are  mis- 
make  and  repeal.  I     demeanors,  and  penalties  for  the  same. 

The  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  have  power,*  by  a  councf/hav^Twer 
maiority  of  the  members  of  each  branch,  present  and  absent,  rep^aford/nrncea*^ 

•^  *^  ^  ^  for  certain 

subject   to   the   approval   or   disapproval  of  the   mayor,  as  ^e^^vo^^^- 
aforesaid,   to  make,   alter,   and    repeal    ordinances   for  the 
following  purposes  •? 

To  regulate  trade,  markets,  and  commerce,  and  to  regulate  j^'^^'^.^.v""''''''  ""* 
weights  and  measures,  in  conformity  with  the  lawful  stand- 
ards thereof,  within  the  limits  of  said  city  : 

To  manage,  regulate,  and  control  the  finances  and  prop-  ^"^^^^^^^  property, 
rty,  real  and  personal,  of  the  city,  and  regulate  the  bor- 
rowing of  money  by  the  city  for  any  purpose  for  w^hich  said 
court  are  authorized  to  lay  taxes  under  the  restrictions  of 
this  act;^  to  provide  for  the  due  authentication,  execution,  ^f^"^""""^'"^"""- 
and  delivery  of  deeds,  grants,  and  releases  of  city  property, 
and  evidences  of  debt  issued  by  said  city;  to  prevent  and 
secure  the  removal  of  all  nuisances  injurious  to  health,  or  Nuisances. 
offensive  to  the  public,  at  the  expense  of  the  owner  of  the 
premises   where    such    nuisance    exists,    or   otherwise;    for 
the  laying  out,  altering,  establishing  and  making  highways.  Highways,  etc 
streets,  parks,  public  grounds  and  walks,  openings  for  the 
circulation  of  air,  building  lines,  drains  and  sewers;  to  drain 

'  See  also  page  50, 

2  See  pages  51.  99, 100, 128, 133, 134, 148,  156, 174. 
8  Amended,  1863,  page  85:  1870,  page  86. 

»  Whenever  the  performance  of  a  public  duty  is  imposed  the  powers  necessary 
for  its  full  performance  are  impliedly  given.    New  Haven  v.  Sargent,  38  Conn.,  50. 


10  CITY   CHARTER. 

and  raise  low  lands ;  to  make,  repair,  purify,  light  and  keep 
open  and  safe  for  public  use  and  travel,  and  free  from 
encroachment  or  obstruction,  the  streets,  highways,^  pass- 
ways  and  public  grounds  and  places  in  said  city,  which  is 
hereby  constituted  a  highway  district  by  itself;  to  secure  the 
Fireworks,  shows,    safety  of  persoHs  passing  through  or  in  the  same,  by  regulat- 

i>  No  obligation  rests  upon  the  city  at  common  law  to  repair  highways.  This 
obligation  is  wholly  statutory.  Chidsey  v.  Canton,  17  Conn.,  475;  Stonington  v. 
States,  81  Conn.,  213. 

The  city  is  bound  to  keep  in  repair  all  the  highways  within  its  limits.  Manches- 
ter V.  Hartford,  30  Conn.,  118. 

The  duty  to  repair  involves  the  duty  of  reasonable  supervision.  Manchester  v. 
Hartford,  30  Conn.,  118;  Cusick  v.  Norwich,  40  Conn.,  274. 

City  bound  to  remove  obstructions.    Hawley  v.  Harrall,  19  Conn.,  142. 

What  are  defects.    Hewison  v.  New  Haven,  34  Conn,,  136 ;  Lee  v.  Barkhamsted, 
Conn.,  213;  Wilson  v.  Granby,  47  Conn.,  59 ;  Burr  v.  Plymouth,  48  Conn.,  460. 

Objects  in  or  near  highway,  calculated  to  frighten  horses  of  ordinary  gentleness 
are  defects.  Dimock  v.  Suffield,  SO  Conn.,  129;  Ayer  v.  Norwich,  39  Conn.,  376; 
Young  V.  New  Haven,  39  Conn.,  435. 

An  erection  in  the  highway,  though  not  in  the  traveled  path,  may  be  a  nuisance. 
State  V.  Merrit,  35  Conn.,  314. 

City  liable  for  defective  sidewalk.    Manchester  v.  Hartford,  30  Conn.,  118. 

Liability  for  snow  and  ice  on  sidewalk.  Congdon  v.  Norwich,  37  Conn.,  414; 
Landolt  v.  Norwich,  37  Conn.,  615;  Boucher  v.  New  Haven,  40  Conn.,  456;  Dooley  v. 
Meriden,  44  Conn.,  117. 

Adjoining  proprietor  not  liable  to  city  when  snow  and  ice  accumulates  from  nat- 
ural causes.    Hartford  v.  Talcott  et  al.,  48  Conn.,  525. 

Iron  grating  in  sidewalk,  when  and  when  not  a  defect.  Littlefleld  v.  Norwich,  40 
Conn.,  406. 

Discontinued  highway  to  be  guarded.    Munson  v.  Derby,  37  Conn.,  298. 

Liability  for  defective  bridges  and  railings.  Eldridge  v.  Pomfret,  1  Root,  270; 
Swift  V.  Kent,  1  Root,  448 ;  Lewis  v.  Litchfield,  2  Root,  436 ;  Daniels  v.  Saybrook,  U 
Conn.,  377;  Thorp  v.  Brookfield,  36  Conn.,  320;  Bronson  v.  Southbury,  37  Conn.,  199; 
Ward  V.  North  Haven,  43  Conn.,  148. 

What  evidence  admissible  on  question  of  defect.    Calkins  v.  Hartford,  33  Conn. ,  57. 

Secret  defect  in  carriage  or  harness  contributing  to  the  injury  will  not  preclude 
recovery,    Baldwin  v.  Greenwoods  Turnpike  Company,  40  Conn.,  238. 

City  liable  for  negligent  performance  or  non-performance  of  a  private  duty. 
Jones  V.  New  Haven,  34  Conn.,  1. 

Not  liable  if  it  is  a  public  governmental  duty.  Hewison  v.  New  Haven,  87,Conn. , 
475. 

City  liable  for  nuisance  created  by  performing  lawful  act  in  unlawful  manner. 
Mootry  v.  Danbury,  46  Conn.,  560;  Healey  v.  New  Haven,  47  Conn.,  305;  Morse 
V.  Fair  Haven,  48  Conn.,  220. 

As  to  what  constitutes  notice  of  a  defect.  Manchester  v.  Hartford,  30  Conn.7 118 ; 
Boucher  V.  New  Haven,  40  Conn.,  456 ;  Cusick  v.  Norwich,  40  Conn.,  375;  Littlefleld 
V.  Norwich,  40  Conn.,  406. 

Notice  to  a  citizen  is  not  notice  to  the  city.    Bill  v.  Norwich,  39  Conn.,  222. 

The  written  notice  of  injury  required  by  statute  cannot  be  waived  by  town  agent. 
Hoyle  V.  Putnam,  46  Conn.,  56. 

As  to  requisites  of  notice,  see  Shaw  v.  Waterbury,  46  Conn.,  263. 

Macadamizing  a  street  is  not  a  public  improvement.  New  Haven  v.  Whitney  et 
aZ.,  36  Conn.,  373. 

Liability  for  obstructions  without  highway  limits.  Beardsley  v.  Hartford,  50 
Conn.,  — . 


CITY   CHARTER.  11 

ing  fireworks,  shows,  parades   and   rendezvous,  processions 
and  music,  the  speed  of  animals,  vehicles  and  cars,  the  run-  speed  or  auimaR 
uing  at  large  of  animals  through  or  in  any  part  of  said  city, 
and  the  impounding  of  the  same ;  to  protect  and  preserve 
trees  and  other  ornaments  of  public  places;  to  regulate  or  f^^^^j^**';^;},^^^, ^^ 
prohibit  the  excavation  or  opening  of  streets,  highways,  and  ^'"^'^"*^*'  ^^' 
public  grounds  for  public  or  private  purposes,  and  the  loca- 
tion of  any  work  or  thing  therein,  whether  temporary  or 
permanent,    upon   or   under  the    surface    thereof,   and    the 
removal  of  buildings  upon  or  through  the  same;  to  keep  the 
same  quiet  and  orderl}^,  and  free  from  undue  noise  upon  the  Lords  day. 
Lord's  day,  and  regulate  and  prohibit  the  ringing  of  bells, 
and  crying  of  goods  in  said  city;  and  to  protect  the  state  state  House  yard. 
house  yard  in  said  city,  and  all  things  appertaining  thereto ; 
to  restrain  cruelty  to  animals,  and  inhuman  sports;  to  pre- cruelty  to  animals. 
scribe  the  forms  of  proceeding  in  all  cases  of  taking   land  Taking  lands, 
for  public  use  within  said  city,  not  specially  prescribed  in 
this  act;    to  prevent  vice  and   immorality,  preserve  piiblic  Peace,^s^d order 
peace  and  good  order ;  prevent  and  quell  riots  and  disorderly 
assemblages,  suppress  gambling   houses,  and   houses   of   ill 
fame,  and  disorderly  houses ;  and  to  confer  upon  the  mayor 
and  police  officers  of  the  city  all  powers  necessary  for  such 
purposes ;  to  prohibit,  restrain,  license  and  regulate  all  sports,  ^l^^rd^'saCns'  etl;" 
exhibitions,  public  amusements  and  performances,  and  billiard 
and  bowling  saloons  within  said  city :° 

To  regulate  or  prohibit  swimming  or  bathing  in  public  or  swimming  or  batii- 
exposed  places  within  said  city ;  to  prevent  and  punish  tres- 
passes  in   gardens,  cemeteries,   and   enclosures,   and  public  Trespasses. 
buildings : 

To  regulate  the  burial  of  the  dead,  and  provide  for  the  ^^^'f^^^^^^l^"''^' 
registration  and  return  of  the  deaths  and  burials  in  said  city: 

To  regulate  the  mode  of  taxation  for  city  purposes :  Taxation. 

To  provide  and  regulate  and  prescribe  the  duties  of  a  city  poHcc  force. 
watch,  and  police  force;  and  to  confer  upon  city  watchmen 
and  policemen  the  ordinary  powers  of  constables  of  towns, 
within  the  limits  of  said  city;  and  to  punish  the  resistance, 

0  When  a  corporation  is  authorized  to  grant  licenses,  the  power  to  chaise  a  reft- 
8  onable  sum  therefor  is  implied.    Welch  v.  Hotchkiss,  39  Conn.,  140. 


12 


CITY   CHARTER. 


Publiu  hackij. 


(iuuiiowder. 


or  obstruction  of  public  officers  in  the  discharge  of  their 
duty: 
Kire  department  and  To  orgauizc  aud  rcgulatc  a  fire  department  and  fire  appa- 
ratus ;  to  protect  said  city  from  exposure  to  fire,  regulate  the 
mode  of  building,  and  the  materials  used  for  building,  or 
altering  buildings  within  said  city,  or  any  part  thereof,  and 
the  mode  of  using  any  buildings  therein,  when  such  regula- 
tions seem  expedient  for  the  purpose  of  preserving  said  city 
from  the  dangers  of  fire:* 

To  license  and  regulate  public  hacks  or  carriages,  the 
charges  of  hackmen  and  public  drivers,  cartmen,  and  truck- 
men: 

To  prohibit  and  regulate  the  bringing  in,  carrying  out  or 
through,  or  storing  gunpowder  in  said  city : 

To  provide  forms  of  oaths  for  all  officers  of  said  city 
elected  by  city  meeting,  or  appointed  by  the  court  of  the 
common  council : 

To  regulate  the  width  of  streets,  highways,  and  alleys : 

To  provide  for  the  manner  of  warning  city  meetings,  and 
meetings  of  the  court  of  common  council,  and  times  and 
places  of  h'olding  the  same : 

To  provide  for  the  filling  of  vacancies*  which  may  occur  in 
any  office  appertaining  to  said  city,  or  may  exist  in  conse- 
quence of  a  tie  vote  at  any  city  election,  for  the  unexpired 
term  of  such  office: 

To  provide  for  bonds^  and  sureties  of  any  officer  chosen  b} 
said  city,  or  by  said  court  of  common  council,  and  penaltie 
for  the  refusal  of  any  such  officer,  or  of  any  juror  of  the  cit; 
Kiection  and  duties  court  to  scrvc :  to  provldc  for  the  election  and  prescribe  th 

ot  certain  ofhcers.  ^  i- 


Width  of  streets, 


■Warning  of  city 
meetings. 


Bonds  and 
penalties. 


I 


d  The  fire  department,  when  engaged  in  extinguishing  fires,  is  performing  a  pub- 
lic governmental  duty,  and  the  city  is  not  responsible  for  the  acts  of  its  members. 
Jewett  V.  New  Haven,  38  Conn.,  368, 

Same  principle  applied  to  volunteer  company.  Torbush  v.  Norwich,  38  Conn., 
225. 

An  ordinance  forbidding  the  erection  of  wooden  buildings  within  fire  limits, 
without  a  license  therefor,  and  providing  for  their  removal,  held  to  be  authorized 
by  charter  and  reasonable.    Hine  et  al.  v.  New  Haven,  40  (;onn.,  478. 

4  Amended,  1872.    See  page  53. 

« As  to  liability  of  bondsmen  of  public  officers,  see  Hartford  v.  Franey  et  al.,  47 
Conn.,  76, 


CITY   CHARTER.  13 

duties  of  city  surveyors,  port  wardens,  coroners,^  street  coni- 

mi8sionei*s,  public  weighers,  officers  of  the  fire  department, 

sealers  of  weights  and  measures,  health  officers,  inspectors  of 

any  kind  of  produce  of  the  United  States,  brought  to  said 

city  for  sale  or  exhibition,  and  such  other  functionaries*  ^  as 

are  proper  for  the  administration  of  the  affairs  of  said  city,  '^^^f^;-''"^ """" 

and  the  proper  regulation  of  trade  and  commerce  thereof: 

To  provide  for  the  election  and  prescribe  the  duties  of  offi-  c^^'^^q  couucu  "^ 
cers  of  said  court,  including  the  clerks  of  each  board : 

To  provide  for  the  mode  of  keeping  of  the  accounts  of  said  Keepingof  accounts. 
city: 

To  prescribe  the  place  and  manner  of  holding  the  annual  Kiectious. 
election  of  said  city  in  the  wards  thereof:  to  designate  the 
persons  who    shall  j)reside  at  said  election,  and   who   may 
examine  persons  offering  to  vote,  under  oath;  the  mode  of 
balloting  and  conducting  such  elections,  and  all  the  incidents 
thereof,  except  in  matters  expressly  regulated  by  this  act  :^  to 
provide  for  or  continue  the  division  of  said  city  into  wards^  ^  ^rds. 
for  the  election  of  all  city  officers :  to  prevent  illegal  voting  "itsai  voiiug. 
at  city  meetings :  to  regulate  the  duties  of  the  collector  of  Taxes. 
city  taxes,  and  to  provide  the  mode  of  collecting  the  same  :^ 

To  confer  the  freedom  of  the  city  on  persons  living  out  of  ^'rctiomotthcdty. 
the  limits  of  the  same : 

To  regulate  the  location  of  stationary  steam  boilers,  barns,  steam  boilers,  etc. 
and  out-houses,  sinks,  and  drains,  in  said  city: 

To  prescribe  the  salaries  and  compensation  of  all  officers  co^mpensatlon. 
of  said  city,^"  and  the  duties  of  such  officers,  not  expressly 
defined  by  the  provisions  of  this  act:""^ 

5  Amended,  1883,  see  page  57. 

•5  Amended,  1872.    See  page  53 ;  see  page  147. 

f  Certain  officers  held  to  be  public  officers  and  the  city  not  liable  for  their  acts 
performed  while  engaged  in  their  official  duties.  Judge  v.  City  of  Meriden,  38 
Conn.,  m;  Jewett  v.  New  Haven,  38 Conn.,  368 ;  Mead  v.  New  Haven,  40  Conn.,  72. 

"  Amended,  1877.    See  page  74. 

8  Amended,  1869.    See  page  42 ;  1876,  see  page  45. 

'^Amended,  1866.    See  page  167. 
if>  Amended,  1866.    See  page  169 ;  1881,  see  page  65 ;  see,  also,  page  67. 

"  Amended,  1869.    See  page  48 ;  1861,  see  page  175. 

e  City  may  indemnity  a  public  officir  for  loss  sustained  by  him  in  the  perform- 
ance of  his  official  duty,  but  the  duty  must  have  been  authorized  or  imposed  by  law 
and  the  matter  one  in  which  the  city  had  an  interest.  Gregory  v.  Bridgeport,  41 
Conn.,  76. 


14 


CITY   CHARTER. 


Highways,  etc. 


Corouer  and  juries 
of  inquest. 


Assessment  lien  on 
laud. 


Removal  of  oflicers. 


Penalties  and 
forfeitures. 


To  cany  out  all  the  powers  conferred  and  duties  imposed 
on  said  court  by  the  seventh  section  of  this  act : 

To  prevent  illegal  practices  with  dead  bodies  in  medical 
institutions  or  elsewhere  in  said  city : 

To  prescribe  the  mode  of  appointing  a  coroner/^  his  duties 
and  compensation,  and  the  duties  and  compensation  of  other 
persons  engaged  in  proceedings  by  or  before  such  coro- 
ner, including  juries  of  inquest:  which  said  coroner,  for  the 
purpose  of  arresting  persons  suspected  of  being  the  cause  of 
the  death  of  another,  and  summoning  juries  of  inquest,  shall 
have  all  the  power  of  justices  of  the  peace :  and  his  process 
shall  be  returnable  to  the  police  court  of  said  city,  in  which 
court  he  shall  have,  relative  to  such  suspected  persons,  all  the 
powers  of  a  grand  juror: 

To  provide  that  assessments  of  benefits^  for  any  public  work 
shall  be  a  lien^^  upon  the  land  or  real  estate,  on  account  of 
which  said  assessment  is  made :  which  lien  may  be  foreclosed 
at  the  suit  of  the  city,  in  the  same  manner  as  a  mortgaged 
incumbrance: 

To  provide  for  the  removal  or  expulsion  of  any  officer  on 
account  of  corruption  or  misfeasance  in  office : 

To  prescribe  oaths  of  city  officers,  and  to  authorize  the 
mayor^*  to  administer  oaths  in  all  courts : 

To  prescribe  the  time  and  place  of  holding  the  courts  of 
said  city,  where  no  express  provision  is  made  concerning  the 
same  in  this  act.  ; 

And  said  court  of  common  council  may  impose  and  inflicJI 
penalties  and  forfeitures  of  goods  and  chattels,  for  the  viola- 
tions of  such  ordinance  ;*  which  penalties  and  forfeitures  shall 
be  recoverable  by  the  attorney  of  the  city  before  the  city 


12  Amended,  1883.    See  page  57. 

^  Mortgagee's  interest  liable  to  pay  city  lien  for  improvement.  Norwich  v.  Hub- 
bard et  al.,  22  Conn.,  587. 

Assessment  for  local  improvements  is  not  a  tax.  Bridgeport  v.  N.  Y.  and  N.  H.  R.j 
R.  Co.,  36  Conn.,  255. 

13  Amended,  1877.    See  page  110 ;  1883,  page  111. 
i-i  Amended,  1863.    See  page  37. 

5  Penalty  for  violation  of  city-law,  how  affected  when  same  ground  is  covered  by 
general  statute.    State  v.  Welch,  36  Conn,,  215. 

Several  penalties  incurred  by  a  single  act  may  be  sued  for  in  one  action.  Bark- 
hamsted  t.  Parsons,  3  Conn.,  1. 


1 
I 


CITY   CHARTER.  15 

court  in  an  action  of  debt,  brought  in  the  name  of  the  city 
of  Hartford,  for  the  use  of  the  city  treasury ;  and  in  such 
action  no  aj)peal  shall  be  allowed.  The  violation  of  any 
ordinance  or  by-law  relative  to  nuisances  injurious  to  health,  Misdemeanors, 
illegal  voting,  obstructions  of  highways,  if  malicious,  illegal 
charges  of  hackmen,  and  weights  and  measures,  or  any  by- 
law or  ordinance  designed  to  prevent  vice,  immorality,  or 
disorder,  or  the  obstruction  and  resistance  of  officers,  shall  be 
a  misdemeanor,^^  and  may  be  prosecuted  as  such  before  the 
city  police  court,  like  other  offences,  which  court  may  inflict 
therefor  the  penalty  named  in  such  by-law,  and  enforce  the 
same  in  the  same  manner  as  other  judgments  of  said  city 
police  court  are  enforced;^  provided  that  no  penalty,  or  forfeit-  Lhmtationof 
ure  of  goods,  other  than  such  forfeiture  as  shall  indirectly 
accrue  by  the  abatement  of  nuisances,  shall  exceed  the  sum 
of  fifty  dollars  for  a  single  offence;  except  in  the  case  of  the 
illegal  ^ale  and  transportation  of  gunpowder,  for  which,  when 
the  quantity  of  the  same  sold  or  transported  exceeds  twenty- 
^e  pounds,  a  penalty  at  the  rate  of  one  dollar  per  pound  for 
le  excess  may  be  imposed.  In  addition  to  said  penalty, 
lid  court  may  by  their  ordinances,  subject  to  four-fold  city  f^^^YtiS '''^^ 
ixation  any  building  erected  or  added  to,  or  removed,  or 
seated,  in  violation  of  any  by-law  or  ordinance  designed  to 
kve  said  city  from  the  perils  of  fire,  or  to  keep  streets  and 
public  places  free  from  encroachment  and  obstructions. 


SECTION  IX. 

Publication  of  Ordinances. 


Every  ordinance^  of  said  city  shall  be  published  ten  days  ordinances, 
at  least  in  two  or  more  daily  papers  issued  within  the  City 
of  Hartford,  before  it  shall  take  effect ;  and  the  certificate  of 
the  city  clerk  upon  the  record  of  such  ordinance,  that  the 
same  has  been  so  published,  shall  be  prima  facie  evidence 

15  Amended,  1862.    See  page  128;  see  also  page  134. 

i  This  provision  not  unconstitutional.    State  v.  Tryon,  39  Conn.,  183. 

1  Amended,  1860.    See  page  135 ;  1872,  see  page  185. 


how 


16 


CITY   CHARTER. 


thereof,  in  any  suit  or  proceeding ;  and  no  ordinance  shall  be 
valid  if  repugnant  to  the  laws  of  the  State. 


SECTION  X. 


Certain  duties  of  Mayor,  City  Clerk,  and  |  Quorum  of  Common  Council. 
Board  of  Aldermen. 


Mayor  the  presiding 
officer. 


May  give  casting 
vote,  when. 


Clerks  of  Common 
Council. 


Acting  president, 
and  powers  of. 


Quorum. 


The  mayor  shall  be  the  presiding  officer  of  the  board  of 
aldermen,  and  of  all  joint  conventions  of  the  court  of  com- 
mon council,  and  be  empowered  to  give  a  casting  vote  in  all 
cases  where  the  action  of  either  said  board  or  convention 
shall  result  in  a  tie.*  The  city  clerk  shall  be  ex  officio  clerk 
of  the  board  of  aldermen;  and  the  common  council  board 
may  choose  a  clerk  who  shall  not  be  a  member  of  said  board. 
It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  aldermen  to  choose  one 
of  their  own  number  as  acting  president  of  said  board,  who 
shall  have  all  the  powers  and  discharge  all  the  duties  of  the 
mayor  during  the  absence  of  the  mayor  or  any  temporary 
vacancy  in  the  office  of  mayor.  One-half  of  either  board  of 
the  court  of  common  council  shall  constitute  a  quorum  there- 
of The  six  aldermen,  among  those  chosen  at  the  first  annual 
meeting,  who  shall  hold  office  for  two  years,  shall  be  desig- 
nated by  lot  within  ten  days  after  said  meeting  ;  and  lots 
shall  be  drawn  under  the  superintendence  of  the  mayor, 
who  shall  certify  the  result  of  said  drawing  in  some  public 
manner. 


SECTION  XI. 


Jurisdiction  and  Powers  of  City  Court. 


City  Court  to  be 
holdeu  when. 


A  city  court  of  said  city  shall  continue  to  be  holden  ii 
said  city  on  the  first  Monday  of  each  month ;  and  to  hav( 
power  to  adjourn  from  time  to  time;  and  shall  continue  t( 
have  cognizance  of  the  cases  of  which  it  now  has  jurisdictioi 
by  virtue  of  the  original  charter  of  said  city  and  of  subse- 
quent amendments  thereof;    and  its  jurisdiction^  is  hereby 


»  As  to  what  constitutes  tie  vote  see  State  ex  ret.  Cole  v.  Chapman,  44  Conn.,  595. 
1  Amended.    See  page  58. 


CITY   CHARTER.  17 

declared  to  embrace  all  cases  either  at  law  or  in  equity, 
whenever  the  cause  of  action  shall  arise  or  have  arisen 
within  the  limits  of  said  city,*  or  concerns  land  within  said 
limits,  and  one  or  both  parties  live  within  the  same,**  and  any 
suit  or  action  that  may  be  commenced  in  favor  of  any  bank, 
located  in  said  city,  upon  any  writing  obligatory,  payable  by 
the  terms  of  it  at  said  bank,  or  endorsed  to  said  bank.  Said 
city  court  shall  continue  to  have  power  to  proceed  to  try, 
decide,  and  enforce  judgment  and  execution,  in  cases  within 
its  jurisdiction,  in  the  same  manner  as  the  superior  court; 
and  its  executions  shall  be  served  and  returned  in  the  same 
manner  as  superior  court  executions.  An  appeaP  shall  be  Appeals. 
allowed  and  certified  in  due  form  of  law  at  the  first  term  to 
which  any  suit  at  law  is  returnable,  and  before  trial  to  the 
jury,  from  the  judgment  or  determination  of  said  city  court 
in  such  suit,  when  the  matter  in  demand  exceeds  one  hun- 
dred dollars,  to  the  next  superior  court  to  be  holden  in  Hart- 
ford county;  but  if  it  shall  appear  to  the  court  that  such 
appeal  is  taken  for  delay  only,  then  such  court  may  at  their 
discretion,  upon  application  of  £he  plaintiif  at  the  term  when 
such  judgment  is  rendered,  grant  execution  for  the  amount 
of  such  judgment,  notwithstanding  the  appeal,  and  the  same 
may  be  enforced  according  to  law:  provided,  that  the  plaintiff  Execution  to  issue 

•/  G  r  1  r  upon  bond. 

before  taking  out  execution,  shall  enter  into  a  recognizance 

»  Declaration  must  show  that  cause  of  action  arose  within  the  city.  Strong  v. 
Avery,  1  Root,  260;  Maples  v.  Wightman,  4  Conn.,  376;  Hart  v.  Stevenson,  25  Conn., 
499. 

A  note  delivered  within  the  city,  though  executed  elsewhere,  is  within  the  juris- 
diction of  the  City  Court.    Champion  v.  Mumford,  Kirby,  172. 

An  action  on  a  letter  of  guaranty  written  and  directed  out  of  the  city,  but  de  iv- 
ered  to  the  plaintiff  within  the  city,  is  not  within  the  jurisdiction  of  City  Court. 
Austin  v.  Fitch,  1  Root,  289. 

A  judgment  of  the  City  Court  for  a  cause  of  action  that  arose  without  the  city  is 
wholly  void.    Austin  v.  Fitch,  1  Root,  290. 

•>  Not  necessary  to  appear  that  either  party  lived  within  the  limits  of  city  when 
cause  of  action  arose.    Richards  v.  Steward,  2  Day,  328. 

It  must  be  alleged  that  one  of  the  parties  resides  in  the  city.  Nichols  v.  Shaw,  1 
Root,  318. 

What  constitutes  "  residence."    Charter  Oak  Bank  v.  Reed,  45  Conn.,  391. 

City  Court  has  jurisdiction  in  scire  facias  where  original  judgment  was  rendered 
in  said  court,  irrespective  of  residence  of  parties.  Sherwood  v.  Stevenson,  25  Conn., 
431. 

As  to  necessary  allegations  in  such  case.   tb. 

«  Scire  facias  upon  foreign  attachment  is  a  "suit  at  law  "  which  may  be  appealed 
to  the  Superior  Court.    White  v.  Washington  School  District,  45  Conn.,  59. 


18 


CITY    CHARTER. 


before  said  court,  Avith  two  sufficient  sureties,  in  double  tbe 
value  of  the  property  or  sum  recovered  b}-  said  judgment, 
that  he  will,  within  one  week  after  final  judgment  in  the 
appellate  court,  fully  restore  the  property  taken  and  repay 
the  sum  collected  by  virtue  of  said  execution,  (including  fees 
for  levying  the  same,)  with  interest  on  such  entire  sums,  to 
the  full  extent  to  which  such  judgment  shall  be  reversed  and 
reduced  upon  such  final  judgment;  and  no  appeal  shall  l)e 
allowed  on  any  suit  commenced  on  said  recoguizance. 


SECTION  XII. 


City  Court ;  how  composed. 
Judges ;  how  appointed. 


City  Attorney; 
ties. 


how  appointed  and  du- 


Clty  Court,  how 
composed. 


Judges;  how 
appointed. 

Term  of  office. 


Clerk  of;  duties 
and  authority. 


City  attorney ; 
how  appointed. 


Duties  and 
compensation  of, 
how  prescribed. 


Said  court  shall  continue  to  be  composed  of  a  recorder, 
who  shall  be  chief  judge,  and  two  associate  judges  of  said 
court  ;^  and  after  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  the  present 
recorder  and  judges,  the  recorder  shall  hold  office  for  two 
years,  and  until  his  successor  shall  be  appointed;  and  the 
associate  judges  for  one  year,  and  until  their  successors  shall 
be  appointed ;  and  they  shall  be  appointed  by  a  major  vote'' 
of  the  entire  court  of  common  council  in  joint  convention 
assembled,  at  such  time  as  the  by-laws  or  ordinances  of  said 
city  shall  prescribe.  And  said  court  shall  appoint  and  sw^ear 
a  clerk  of  such  court,  Avho  shall  continue  in  office  during 
pleasure,  and  shall  be  sworn  in  to  a  faithful  discharge  of  his 
duties,  and  shall  give  bonds  therefor,  if  required  to  do  so  byj 
the  by-laws  or  ordinances  of  said  city;  and  the  said  cler 
shall  have,  in  matters  pertaining  to  said  court,  the  sam 
authority  as  clerks  of  the  superior  court.  And  an  attorney 
of  the  city,  who  shall  be  counsel  to  the  corporation,  and 
whose  duties  and  compensation  shall  be  fixed  by  a  by-laAv  oi 


is 

i 


1  Amended,  1872.    See  page  61. 

a  What  constitutes  a  "  major  vote."    State  ac  rel.  Cole  v.  Chapman,  44  Conn.,  595. 
Blank  ballot  should  be  counted,    ib. 

Where  each  of  two  candidates  received  an  equal  number  of  votes  and  there  was 
also  a  blank  ballot,  held  that  mayor  could  not  give  casting  vote.    ib. 


CITY    CHARTER.  19 

oi-diiuiuoe  of  said  city,  shall  be  appointed  in  the  same  manner 
as  the  recorder  at  such  time  as  said  ordinance  shall  prescribe, 
and  shall  hold  office  for  one  year,  and  until  his  successor 
shall  be  appointed  and  qualified. 

SECTION  XIII. 

VacanciesinCity  Court;  how  filled.    Fees  and  Appeals  in  same. 

If  any  member  of  said  court  shall  be  absent  or  disqualified,  JSeTfor!'^'*""^ 
the  remaining  judges,  whenever  such  absence  or  disqualifica- 
tion is  not  waived  by  the  parties  to  the  suit  on  trial,  may  fill 
the  vacancy  or  vacancies  by  calling  in  place  of  each  absent 
judge  a  justice  of  the  peace  residing  in  the  county  of  Hart- 
ford;   and  the  court  so  constituted  shall  be,  for  the  time 
being,  the  city  court.^     If  all  the  judges  shall  be  absent  or 
disqualified  at  any  time  when  said  court  should  be  holden 
according  to  law,  the  mayor  shall  designate  three  justices  of  ^^°^^^;''^/^'',/'"' 
the  ])eace  of  the  coimty  of  Hartford  to  hold  said  court,  who  ^^^  ''"^^^'" 
shall  for  the  time  being,  constitute  such  court.     Vacancies 
for  the  unexpired  term  of  any  judge  shall  be  filled  in  the  ^^""^^^'^ 
same  manner.as  said  judges  are  to  be  appointed.     Continu- 
ances and  defaults  of  cases  may  be   ordered  and  caused  to  continuauces 

•/  aud  defaults. 

be  entered,  by  any  one  judge,  or  two  judges  of  said  court  if 

no  more  are  present.     The  taxable  fees  of  the   city  court  Taxawefees. 

shall  be  prescribed  by  a  by-law  or  ordinance  of  said  city.'^ 

AH   appeals    from   judgments   rendered   by  justices  of  the  Appeals. 

peace  residing  within  the  said  city  shall  continue  to  be  taken 

and  allowed,  as  by  law  provided,  to  the  city  court.^ 


SECTION  XIV. 

Oily  Court;  motion  in  Error. 

AVhenever  final  judgment  or  decree  is  rendered  in  said 
court  in  any  cause  in  which  a  party  may  be  entitled  to  a 


I 


1  Amended,  1874.    See  page  69, 

2  Amended,  1881.    See  page  66 ;  1881,  see  page  73, 
?  Aflaended,  1869.    See  page  59. 


20 


CITY    CHARTER. 


Motion  in  error. 


Trausniissiou 
of  records. 


writ  of  error^  to  the  siq^erior  court,  such  party  may,  in  tho 
same  term  and  within  twenty-four  hours  after  final  judgment 
or  decree,  file  his  motion^  that  the  record  in  such  cause  ma}' 
be  transmitted  to  the  next  superior  court  in  Hartford  county  ; 
and  thereupon  such  city  court  shall  have  the  same  powers 
with  reference  to  such  motions  as  are  given  to  the  superior 
court  uj^on  similar  motions  in  the  superior  court  for  the 
transmission  of  records  to  the  supreme  court  of  errors,  and 
upon  the  allowance  of  such  a  motion,  a  copy  of  the  record 
shall  be  entered  on  file  in  the  next  superior  court  for  said 
county,  which  shall  proceed  therein  as  on  a  w^rit  of  error, 
stay  of  execution,  ^ud  Said  clty  court  may,  upon  allowing  said  motion,  stay 
execution  whenever  it  shall  think  proper  so  to  do. 


Copy  of  record 
where  entered. 


SECTION  XV. 

City  Court ;  service  of  process. 

When  the  defendant  who  is  sued  to  said  city  court  at  hiw 
or  in  equity  lives  within  the  limits  of  said  city,  the  writ  shall 
be  served  upon  him  at  least  six  days  before  the  sitting  of  the 
court  to  which  the  same  is  returnable ;  but  if  the  defendant 
lives  without  the  limits  of  said  city,  the  writ  shall  be  served 
at  least  twelve  days  before  the  sitting  of  the  court ;  and  all 
writs  returnable  to  the  city  court  shall  be  returned  to  said 
court  before  the  first  opening  thereof 


SECTION  XVI. 


City  Court :  Neglect  to  serve  writ  to,  how  punished. 


Neglect  of  officer 
to  serve  writ. 


In  case  any  sherifi",  deputy  sherifi"  or  constable  shall  not 
serve  a  writ  directed  to  and  received  by  him,  that  is  return- 
able to  the  city  court,  or  shall  neglect  to  make  return  of  said 
writ,  or  shall  make  a  false  return  thereof,  and  a  suit  for  such 
default  be  brought  against  him  to  such  city  court  by  the 


1  Amended,  1882. 

2  Amended,  1874. 


See  page  70 ; 


1881,  see  page  70. 

1882,  see  page  70. 


CITY    CHARTER.  21 

person,  his  executor  or  administrator,  in  whose  favor  the  suit 
issued,  and  the  defendant  be  found  in  default,  the  court  over 
and  above  awarding  just  damages  to  the  party,  shall,  on  said 
suit,  set  a  suitable  fine  on  the  defendant,  according  to  the  I'euaity. 
nature  of  the  case,  and  may  issue  execution  for  the  same, 
which  fine  shall  be  to  the  treasury  of  the  city.^ 


SECTION  XVII. 

Jurors  of  City  Court ;  how  appointed.      |   Issues  of  fact ;  how  tried  by  agreement. 

The  board  of  aldermen  shall  hold  a  special  meeting  at  cily'cmn. 
such  time  and  place  as  the  by-laws  or  ordinances  of  said  city 
shall  prescribe,  for  the  choice  of  not  less  than  seventy  nor 
more  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  electors  of  said  city  to  serve 
as  jurors  at  said  city  court :  provided^  that  the  judges  thereof 
may  try  and  decide   all  issues  of   fact  which   come   before  issues  of  fact; 

V  •/  how  tried. 

them,  by  themselves,  or  by  a  jury  of  six  when  the  parties 

shall  agree  to  it.  The  mode  of  returning  the  names  of  the 
Hfty  jurors,  and  of  putting  the  same  in  a  box  for  the  purpose 
^f  drawing  the  same,  and  of  summoning  said  jurors,  and  the  SurueSdrawu. 

form  of  the  oath  by  them  to  be  taken,  shall  be  fixed  by 

ordinance  of  said  city. 


SECTION  xvni. 

Police  Court ;  how  constituted ;  jurisdiction  of. 

There  shall  continue  to  be  a  city  police  court  established  fj^jf^te'd.'^ 
and  holden  within    and  for   said    city,  the  judge  of   w^hich 
shall  be  appointed  in  the  same   manner  as  the  recorder  of 
said  city,^  and  hold  his  office  for  the  term  of  one  year'^  and 
until  his  successor  shall  be  chosen  and  sworn.'     He  shall  con- 

»  Ciiy  marshal  liable  for  neglect  of  duty  in  the  same  manner  as  sheriff.    See  ante,  ■ 
page  4. 

1  Amended,  1871.    See  page  62. 

-  Amended.    See  Constitutional  Amendment,  Article  XX,  page  35. 

3  Associate  judge,  how  appointed,  1872,  see  page  63.    Term  of  oflBce,  see  Constitu- 
tional Amendment,  Article  XX,  page  35.    Substitute  judge,  see  page  63. 


'^t  CITY    CHARTER. 

Jurisdiction.  tinue  to  have  and  exercise  the  jurisdiction  and  powers  rchi- 
tive  to  and  over  criminal  cases,  (inchiding  cases  where 
sureties  of  the  person  and  ^ood  behavior  are  required,)  aris- 
ing within  incorporated  limits  of  the  citv  and  on  Con- 
necticut river  opposite  said  city,*  now  vested  by  law  in 
justices  of  the  peace  within  towns,  which  jurisdiction  and 
powers  shall  continue  to  be  exclusive  :^  'provided^  that  no  mag- 
istrate shall  be  prohibited  hereb}'^  from  issuing  warrants  for 
the  arrest  of  otfenders,  or  from  exercising  jurisdiction  in  all 
prosecutions  under  the  act  for  the  suppression  of  intemper- 
ance, or  from  discharging  any  ministerial  dut}^  or  office  now 
by  law  imposed  upon  him ;  but  all  warrants  on  account  of  an}' 
offence  within  the  jurisdiction  of  said  police  court,  except 
under  said  act,  shall  require  the  offender  to  l>e  brought  before 
the  said  police  court,  there  to  be  dealt  with  according  to  law. 
Said  court  shall  have  authority,  subject  to  the  provisions  of 
this  act,  to  hear  and  determine  charges  for  crimes  and  misde- 
meanors committed  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  Hartford, 
the  2)unishment  of  which,  as  prescribed  by  law.  does  not 
exceed  a  fine  of  two  hundred  dollars,  or  six  months  impris- 
onment in  a  common  jail,  work-house  or  city  penitentiary, 
or  such  fine  and  imprisonment  both  f  and  in  all  such  cases 
said  court  may  proceed  to  trial,  render  final  judgment 
thereon,  and  grant  a  warrant  for  the  execution  thereof, 
according  to  law.     But  in  all  cases  the  person  convicted  may 

Appeals.  appeal  from  the  judgment  of  said  police  court  to  the  sujie- 

rior  court  next  to  be  holden  in  the  county  of  Hartford, 
except  when  the  convictions  shall  be  for  the  crimes  of  j^ro 
fane  cursing  and  swearing,  and  Sabbath  breaking:  provided^ 
that  he  give  such  bond  on  the  appeal  as  said  court  shall 
order,  payable  to  the  treasurer  of  the  county  of  Hartford 
conditioned  for  the  appearance  of  the  person  so  convicted 
])efore  the  superior  court,  to  answer  concerning  the  offence 
whereof  he  stands  charged,  and  to  abide  the  judgment  that 


I 


*  Amended,  1875.    See  page  60 ;  1879,  see  page  60. 

5  Powers  de  truants.  See  page  142;  de  commitment  to  Reform  School,  1881.  See 
page  143 ;  de  commitment  to  Industrial  School.  Se?  page  145 ;  de  breach  of  by-laws 
of  water  commissioners,  1861.    See  page  175. 

6  Amended.    See  pages  60  and  61. 


Police 
and  his 
duties. 


CITY   CHARTER.  23 

may  be  rendered  by  the  court  last  aforesaid.  If  the  crime 
charged  against  the  accused  shall  in  any  case  be  of  so  aggra- 
vated a  nature  as  to  require  a  greater  punishment  than  is 
above  specified,  the  accused  shall  be  by  said  police  court 
bound  over  to  the  next  suj^erior  court  having  cognizance  of  ^•'"'''"^  "'•''■• 
such  offence,  in  the  same  manner  as  is  provided  in  cases  of 
bijKling  over  by  justices  of  the  peace  in  and  by  the  one  hun- 
dred and  forty-eighth  section  of  the  sixth  title  of  the  revised 
statutes  of  this  state.  Said  court  shall  have  and  apjioint  a  coun^l 
clerk,  who  shall  keep  a  record  of  the  same,  and  certify  its 
proceedings,  whose  duties,  compensation,  bond,  (including 
his  duties  relative  to  the  payment  of  prosecuting  officers,) 
shall  be  regulated  by  city  ordinance. 


SECTION  XIX. 

Complaints  to  police  court ;  how  made.    I  May  arrest  without  warrant;  when. 
Bench  warrant ;  when  to  issue.  I 

Presentments  or  complaints  in  any  criminal  matter  coa:- Complaints ;  who 

i.  ty  o     may  make. 

nizable  by  said  police  court,  may  be  made  to  the  same  by 
any  grand  juror  of  the  town  of  Hartford,^  or  the  attorney 
for  the  city  of  Hartford;  and  said  court  shall  exercise  the 
same  powers  in  relation  to  the  issuini^  of  process  against  per-  summons  and 

^  o  r  O  r  capias. 

sons  so  complained  of,  and  the  granting  of  a  summons  or 
capias  for  witnesses,  as  are  conferred  upon  justices  of  the 
peace,  in  and  by  the  one  hundred  and  fifty-seventh  section  of 
the  sixth  title  of  the  revised  statutes  of  this  state.  Process 
issued  by  or  returnable  to  said  police  court,  may  be  served 
by  the  sheriff'  or  deputy  sheriff'  of  Hartford  county,  or  the  service. 
marshal  or  deputy  marshals  of  said  city,  or  any  constable  of 
the  town  of  Hartford,  or  any  policeman  or  watchman  of  said 
city,  who  shall  severally  receive  therefor  the  fees  now  pre- 
scribed by  law  for  like  services  by  constables  of  towns. 
Whenever  information  shall  be  given  to  the  judge  of  the 
city  police  court  of  the  city  of  Hartford,  of  the  commission 

1  Amended,  1875.    See  page  64. 


24 


CITY   CHARTER. 


Bench  warrant. 


Arrest  without 
complaint  or 


Trial  without 
complaint  or 
warraut. 


of  any  criminal  offence  within  the  jurisdiction  of  said  court, 
said  court  may  inquire  into  the  truth  of  the  same,  and  issue 
a  warrant  or  bench  warrant  for  the  arrest  of  the  person  or 
persons  complained  of  and  proceed  to  trial  and  render  judg- 
ment concerning  said  person  or  persons,  without'  any  previ- 
ous presentment  by  an  informing  officer. 

It  shall  be  lawful  for  all  officers  by  law  authorized  to  serve 
process  issued  by  and  returnable  to  the  city  police  court,  and 
it  shall  be  their  duty  to  arrest,  without  previous  complaint 
and  warrant,  all  such  persons  as  are  guilty  of  drunkenness, 
vagrancy,  disorderly-  conduct,  breaches  of  the  peace,  and 
common  assaults,  and  other  offences,  when  such  offences  shall 
be  committed  within  the  jurisdiction  of  said  court,  and  such 
offenders  shall  be  taken  and  apprehended  in  the  act,  or  on 
speedy  information  of  others ;  and  it  shall  be  lawful  for  said 
court  to  proceed  to  trial  and  render  judgment,  without  pre- 
vious complaint  and  warrant,  upon  persons  so  arrested,  in 
the  same  manner  as  if  they  had  been  arrested  upon  process 
issued  by  said  court. 


SECTION  XX. 


Police  court ;  may  suspend  judgment,  when. 


Judgment  may 
be  suspendefl. 


Whenever  any  person  shall  be  arraigned  before  said  city 
police  court,  for  drunkenness,  vagrancy,  disorderly  conduct, 
or  a  breach  of  the  peace,  said  court  may  indefinitely  suspend 
the  rendition  of  judgment  concerning  him,  whenever  such 
forbearance  shall  seem  to  the  court  required  by  the  age  of 
the  accused,  or  the  circumstances  under  which  the  offence 
was  committed. 


SECTION  XXI. 
Adjournment  of  cases  in  the  police  court.  |  Bail;  extent  of;  how  taken. 


May  adjourn  cases 
not  to  exceed 
ninety  days. 


'  Before  entering  upon  the  trial  of  any  criminal  cause,  the 
said  ])olice  court  may  adjourn  the  hearing  or  trial  thereof 


CITY    CHARTER.  25 

from  time  to  time,  not  exceeding  fifteen  days,  unless  said 

court,  upon  good   cause   shown,  may   deem  a  longer  time 

necessary  for  the  purpose  of  procuring  material  testimony, 

which  time  shall  not  exceed  ninety  days.     And  said  court,  if 

the  offence  charged  shall  be  bailable,  and  good  and  sufficient  ''"*":  whontnkon. 

bail  is  at  the  time  of  any  adjournment,  or  during  the  period 

of  adjournment,  offered,  shall  take  the  same,  conditioned  that 

the  person  charged  shall  appear  before  said  court  at  the  day 

to  which  the  hearing  or  trial  is  adjourned,  and  then,  and  at 

all  times  thereafter,  abide  the  final  order  or  judgment  of  said 

court.     If  the  case  is  within  the  final  jurisdiction   of  said 

police  court,  the  bond  of  recognizance   shall  be  payable  to  ^^j"^,^*'  ^'"'™ 

the  city  treasurer,  otherwise  to  the  county  or  state  treasurer, 

as  the  nature  of  the  offence  shall  require.* 


I 


SECTION  XXII. 

Police  court:  taxable  costs  in. 


Said  police  court  is  hereby  required  to  charge  and  tax,  for  ^^^Ymi^tax^ 
the  use  of  the  city  of  Hartford,  in  any  criminal  proceedings, 
such  clerk  fees  as  are  allowed  by  law  to  the  clerks  of  the  city 
court,  and  also  one  dollar  for  the  trial  of  each  cause,  and  one 
dollar  duty  on  each  appeal ;  and  the  fee  of  the  prosecuting 
officer,  who  shall  make  any  complaint  or  presentment,  shall 
be  the  same  as  those  provided  bylaw  for  grand  jurors  of  ^ees ;  how  paid. 
towns,  and  payable  from  the  city  treasury ;  and  all  such  fees 
of  the  prosecuting  officer  shall  be  taxed  and  received  by  the 
clerk  in  favor  of  the  city  of  Hartford.  Said  police  court 
may  establish  rules  of  practice  concerning  the  reduction  or 
disallowance  of  fees  now  taxable  by  said  court  in  cases  where 
the  negligence  of  any  ministerial  or  informing  officer,  or  the 
discharge  of  the  accused  for  want  of  evidence,  or  the  insuffi- 
ciency of  the  service  rendered,  or  other  circumstances,  shall 
render  such  reduction  or  disallowance  expedient  in  the  view 
of  said  court  in  the  exercise  of  its  sound  discretion. 

1  Amended.   See  page  72. 


Taxable  costs ; 
disallowed  when. 


26 


CITY    CHARTER. 


Moneys  and  fines 
collected;  where 
paid. 


All  moneys  collected  by  the  clerks  of  the  police  court,  and 
city  court,  shall  be  paid  into  the  city  treasury;  all  fines  paid 
after  commitment  shall  be  received  by  the  keeper  of  the  jail, 
workhouse,  or  penitentiary,  where  the  offender  shall  be  con- 
fined, and  by  such  keeper  be  paid  to  the  city  treasurer  within 
thirty  days  after  the  receii)t  thereof. 


SECTION  XXIII. 


May  commit  t< 
reform  school. 


Police  court;    persons    sentenced    by, 

where  and  how  conveyed. 
May  commit  to  reform  school ;  when. 


City  of  Hartford  may  establish  peniten- 
tiary. 
Rules  and  regulations  of;  how  made. 


City  penitentiary. 


Whenever  any  person  shall  be  sentenced  to  confinement  in 
the  common  jail  of  said  county,  or  in  any  workhouse  there- 
in, it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  sheriff  of  Hartford  county,  and 
his  deputies,  of  the  city  marshals,  and  of  any  constable  or 
city  watchman,  or  policeman  resident  within  the  town  of 
Hartford,  to  convey  all  persons,  so  sentenced,  without  delay, 
to  the  appointed  place  of  confinement,  and  deliver  them  to 
the  keeper  thereof,  who  shall  receive  and  imprison  such  per- 
sons, and  employ  them  according  to  the  rules,  regulations, 
and  discipline  of  such  place  of  confinement,  during  the  term 
for  which  they  shall  severally  be  sentenced  and  committed, 
or  until  they  are  discharged  according  to  law.^ 

It  shall  be  lawful  for  said  police  court,  at  its  discretion,  to 
order  any  person  brought  before  said  court  on  any  criminal 
presentment,  to  be  committed  to  any  reform  school  or  other 
institution  now  or  hereafter  to  be  established  within  this 
state  for  juvenile  offenders;  and  the  proper  officer  of  such 
institution  shall  receive  and  keep  such  persons,  according  to : 
the  rules  and  discipline  of  the  same.  It  shall  be  lawful  for 
the  city  of  Hartford  to  authorize  and  establish  a  city  peni- 
tentiary, for  the  confinement  of  persons  sentenced  to  bej 
committed  by  said  police  court ;  the  rules,  regulations,  and 
discipline  of  which  said  city  penitentiary,  when  erected,  may] 


1  Amended.   See  page  72. 


CITY    CHARTER.  27 

l)c  ordered  and  eBtablislicd  in  and  by  any  city  ordinanceB 
relating  thereto,  which  shall  thereafter  be  enacted  in  due 
form  of  law. 


SECTION  XXIV. 

Water  commissioners ;  how  chosen ;  their  I  Corporate  name, 
powers  and  duties.  1 


There  shall  continue  to  be  a  board  of  five^  water  commis-  S,mmissioner''s'; 
sioners  of  said  city;  and  the  present  commissioners  shall 
hold  office  until  the  expiration  of  the  terms  for  which  they 
were  chosen,  and  until  their  respective  successors  shall  be 
elected  and  qualified.  One  commissioner  shall  be  chosen  Tem  of  office. 
annually  by  the  court  of  common  council,  from  among  the 
members  thereof,  at  such  time  as  the  ordinances  of  said  city 
shall  prescribe.  The  water  commissioners  that  shall  be 
hereafter  chosen  by  city  meeting  shall  hold  office  for  the 
term  of  four  years,  and  succeed  the  commissioners  whose 
terms  shall  then  have  expired.^  Said  board  shall  continue  to  Powers  and  duties. 
be  empowered^  to  take  and  convey  for  and  in  behalf  of  said 
city,  from  the  Connecticut  river  at  some  point  near  or  within 
the  city  of  Hartftnxl,  such  supply  of  water  as  the  conven- 
ience and  necessity  of  the  inhabitants  of  said  city  may 
require ;  and  to  take  and  hold  for  and  in  behalf  of  said  city,  ^^U^uteZi^ 

,  f,  water  purposes, 

lands  or  other  estate  necessary  for  the  construction  of  any 
canals,  aqueducts,  reservoirs,  or  other  works  for  conveying 
ov  containing  water,  or  for  the  erection  and  construction  of 
any  buildings  or  machinery,  or  for  laying  any  pipes  or  con- 
ductors for  conveying  water  into  or  through  said  city;  or  to 
secure  and  maintain  any  portion  of  the  water  works ;  and  in 
general  to  do  any  other  act  necessary  or  convenient  for 
accomplishing  the  purposes  of  supplying  said  city  with 
water,  and  to  distribute  said  water  through  said  city;*  to 
establish  public  hydrants;^  to  prosecute  or  defend  any  action  ^j}{„''7ac"tious in "^ 

name  of  board. 

1  See  pages  86-93.  Amended,  1865.    See  page  52. 

-  Amended,  1872.  See  page  53. 

3  Amended,  1865.  See  page  177 ;  1875,  page  178. 

4  Amended,  1869.  See  page  176 ;  1865,  page  177, 

5  Amended,  1874.  See  page  179. 


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CITY    CHARTER. 


Powor  to  bargain 
for  land. 


Power  to 
condemn  la  k1. 


or  process  at  law  or  in  equity,  by  the  name  of  the  "Board  of 
Water  Commissioners  of  the  City  of  Hartford,"  against  any 
person  or  persons  or  corj^oration  for  the  breach  of  any  con- 
tract, express  or  implied,  relating  to  the  performance  of  any 
work  or  labor  upon  said  water  works,  or  the  management  of 
the  same,  or  the  distribution  of  the  water,  or  for  money  due 
for  the  use  of  the  water,  or  for  any  injury,  or  trespass,  or 
nuisance  affecting  the  water,  machinery,  pipes,  buildings, 
apparatus  or  other  things  under  their  superintendence,  or  foi' 
any  improper  use  of  the  water,  or  any  wasting  thereof,  or 
upon  any  contract  or  promise  made  with  and  to  them  as 
water  commissioners,  or  with  their  predecessors  or  successors 
in  office ;  and  said  board  shall  be  regarded  as  a  corporation 
for  the  purpose  of  suing  and  being  sued.  Said  board  are 
hereby  authorized  to  enter  in  and  u])on  any  land  or  water  for 
the  purpose  of  making  surveys,  and  to  agree  with  the  owner 
or  owners  of  any  property  or  franchise  which  may  be 
required  for  the  purposes  of  this  act.  as  to  the  amount  of 
compensation  to  be  paid  to  such  owner  or  owners  for  the 
same.  And  in  case  of  disagreemeut  between  said  board  and 
any  owner  or  owners  as  to  such  compeusation,  or  as  to  the 
amount  of  damages  which  ought  to  be  awarded  to  any  person 
claiming  to  be  injured  in  his  estate  by  the  doings  of  said 
commissioners,  or  in  case  any  such  owner  shall  be  an  infant, 
or  married  woman,  or  insane,  or  absent  from  this  state,  or 
unknown,  or  the  owner  of  a  contingent  or  uncertain  interest, 
either  judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  errors  may,  on  the 
application  of  either  party,  cause  such  notice  to  be  given  of 
said  application  as  said  judge  shall  see  fit  to  prescribe,  and, 
after  ])roof  thereof  may  nominate  and  appoint  three  disin-l 
terested  persons  to  examine  such  property  as  is  to  be  taken] 
for  or  damaged  by  the  doings  of  said  commissioners,  and| 
they  being  duly  sworn  to  a  faithful  and  impartial  dis- 
charge of  their  duty,  shall  estimate  the  amount  of  compensa-j 
tion  which  said  owners  shall  receive,  and  report  the  same  inl 
writing  to  the  clerk  of  the  superior  court  for  Hartford] 
county,  to  be  by  him  recorded.  Said  judge  of  the  supreme^ 
court  of  errors  may  thereupon  confirm  the  doings  of  said 


CITY   CHARTER.  29 

appraisers,  and  direct  whether  said  commissioners  shall  ])ay 
« the  same,  in  such  manner  as  said  judge  may  prescribe,  in  full 
compensation  for  the  property  acquired  or  the  injury  done 
by  said  commissioners ;  and,  on  compliance  with  the  order  of 
said  judge,  said  commissioners  may  proceed  with  the  con- 
struction of  their  works  without  any  liability  to  any  further 
claim  for  compensation  for  damages.® 


SECTION  XXV. 

Water  Commissioners ;  powers  of.    Duties  prescribed  by  ordinance. 


Coiumis? 


louers 


Said  commissioners  shall  also  be  empowered  to  make  use  ^^p^^.^.^^^  ^^  „^^ 
of  the  ground  or  soil  under  any  road,  railroad,  highway,  '""■^*"*  ^'■*'""'^'- 
street,  private  way,  lane  or  alley,  within  this  State,  for  the 
])urpose  of  constructing  the  water  works;  but  shall  in  all 
such  cases,  cause  the  surface  of  such  road,  railroad,  highway, 
street,  private  wa}',  lane  or  alley,  to  be  restored  to  its  usual 
condition,  and  all  damages  done  thereto  to  be  repaired,  and 
Jill  damages  sustained  by  any  person  or  corporation,  in  conse-  Damages ;  how  paid. 
B|uence  of  the  interruption  to  travel,  to  be  paid  to  such  per- 
son or  corporation. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  court  of  common  council  of  Spre'cdbing 
said  city  to  make  ordinances  prescribing  the  duties  of  the 
hoard  of  water  commissioners  not  expressly  prescribed  by 
this  act;  their  powers  over  the  water  fund  of  the  city  of 
Hartford  and  duties  relative  thereto;    the  officers  of  said 
board,  and  their  compensation,  and  bonds,  and  oaths,  and  the  Snotcmrnea! ' 
])owers  of  said  board  over  the  water  works  of  said  city;  and 
the  mode  in  which  water  rents  or  taxes  shall  be  secured  by 
lien  on  lots,  houses,  tenements,  or  otherwise,  or  shall  be  col- 
lected; also,  relative  to  the  proj^er  number  of  said  commis- Qworum. 
sioners  to  constitute  a  quorum. 


•'  Amended,  l.s«3.    Ste  page  180. 


I 


c]ll 


CITY    CHARTER. 


SECTION  XXVI. 


Malicious  cor- 
rupting of  water. 


Penalty. 


Treble  damages. 


Offences  against  water  property ;  how  punished. 

If  any  person  shall  naalieiously  and  wilfully  corrupt  tho 
water  collected  or  conducted  in  or  into  any  reservoir,  cistern, 
hydrant,  conductor,  engine,  pipe,  or  any  portion  of  the  water 
works  of  the  city  of  Hartford,  or  destroy  or  injure  any 
work,  machinery,  materials,  or  property  erected,  constructed, 
used,  or  designed  to  be  used  within  the  city  of  Hartford,  or 
elsewhere,  for  the  purpose  of  procuring  and  keeping  a  supply 
of  water,  the  city  police  court  of  said  city  shall  have  juris- 
diction of  said  offence,  and  may  punish  the  offender  by  a  fine 
not  exceeding  five  hundred  doUars,  or  by  imprisonment  not 
exceeding  one  year,  or  by  both  fine  and  imprisonment.  And 
said  offender  shall  also,  be  liable  to  treble  damages  in  an 
action  of  trespass  brought  by  said  commissioners. 


SECTION  XXVII. 


The  inhabitants  living  within  the  limits  of  said  city  shall 
be  and  remain  a  part  of  the  town  of  Hartford. 


SECTION  XXVIII. 


Obligatious  of 
city  not  impaired. 


This  act  shall  in  no  manner  impair  or  qualify  the  obligaJ 
tion  of  any  bond,  liabilitj^,  note,  contract,  or  debt  of  saidj 
city,  or  the  evidences  thereof,  and  said  city  shall  be  liabh 
thereon  under  the  name  conferred  by  this  act. 


Provisions  not 
lierein  re-enacted 
repealed. 


SECTION  XXIX. 

Original  charter  and  all  acts  inconsistent  herewith  hereby  repealed. 

All  those  parts  of  the  charter  of  the  city   of   Hartford, 
and  acts  amending  the  same  not  re-enacted  in  this  act,  and 


CITY   CHARTER.  31 

all  laAVS  relating  to  the  city  of  Hartford,  inconsistent  with 
or  superseded  by  the  provisions  of  this  act,  are  hereby 
repealed. 

SECTION  XXX. 

Charter ;  how  ratified. 

■  This  act  may  be  altered  or  amended  by  the  General  Assem-  fSc'r."'"  **^ 
bl}^ ;  and  shall  not  take  effect  until  the  same  shall  have  been 
accepted  in  the  manner  following,  viz.:  the  mayor  of  said 
city  shall  notify  the  citizens  residing  within  the  present  and 
proposed  boundaries  of  the  same,  to  meet  in  the  several 
wards  of  said  city,  at  any  time  not  less  than  six  days  from 
the  date  of  said  notice;  and  shall  then  and  there  cause 
the  votes  of  said  citizens  to  be  received  on  the  acceptance  of 
this  act ;  which  votes  shall  be  by  ballot,  those  in  favor  of  the 
same  voting  Yes,  and  those  opposed  voting  Wo ;  and  said  bal- 
lots shall  be  received  and  counted  in  the  manner  now  by  law 
provided  for  the  reception  of  votes  for  the  choice  of  city  offi- 
cers ;  and  if,  on  counting  the  same  it  shall  appear  that  a  ma- 
jority of  all  the  votes  are  in  the  affirmative,  then  this  act 
shall  be  deemed  to  be  accepted,  and  shall  take  effect  at  such 
time  thereafter  as  the  mayor  of  said  city  shall  make  procla- 
mation of  said*  acceptance.*  And  all  the  present  officers  of 
the  city  of  Hartford  elected  in  city  meeting,  shall  retain  fS'^^tmm"**'''' 
their  offices  until  new  officers,  with  like  functions,  are  chosen  '^^^^«'^''"""- 
under  this  act ;  and  all  officers  of  said  city  appointed  by  the 
court  of  common  council,  or  by  the  courts  of  said  city  shall 
retain  their  offices  until  other  officers,  with  like  functions, 
are  appointed  or  chosen  under  the  provisions  of  this  act ;  and 
all  by-laws  of  said  city  shall  remain  in  full  force  and  opera-  ^[!^^.f^^^^^ 
tion,  in  the  same  manner  as  if  this  act  had  not  been  passed, 
until  such  time  as  the  court  of  common  council,  elected 
under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  appoint  to  be  the  time 
when  the  same  shall  become  inoperative  and  void. 
Approved,  June  24,  1859. 

«  Subsequent  meeting  may  be  held  In  case  the  first  fails  to  ratify,  when.   Society 
for  Savings  v.  City  of  New  London,  29  Conn.,  174. 


( 


CiSTimiONAL  AMENDMENTS 


AMENDMENTS  TO  THE  CHARTER 


I 


OP    THE 


CITY  OF   HARTFOl^D, 


And   Other  Acts   and   General   Statutes   in  Force 
Relating  Thereto,  September  1,  1883. 


CONSTITUTIONAL  AMENDMENTS. 


AETICLE  XX. 

[Adopted  October,  1876.] 

Judges  of  the  Coui-ts  of  Common  Pleas,  and  of  the  District  Courts, 
shall  be  appointed  for  terms  of  four  years.  Judges  of  the  City  Courts 
and  Police  Courts  shall  be  appointed  for  terms  of  two  years. 

ARTICLE  XXiy. 

[Adopted  October,  1877.] 
Neither  the  Greneral  Assembly,  nor  any  county,  city,  borough,  town, 
or  school  district,  shall  have  power  to  pay  or  grant  any  extra  compen- 
sation to  any  public  officer,  employee,  agent,  or  servant,  or  increase  the 
compensation  of  any  public  officer  or  employee,  to  take  effect  during  the 
continuance  in  office  of  any  person  whose  salary  might  be  increased 
thereby,  or  increase  the  pay  or  compensation  of  any  public  contractor 
above  the  amount  specified  in  the  contract. 

ARTICLE  XXY. 

[Adopted  October,  1877.] 
No  county,  city,  town,  borough,  or  other  municipality,  shall  ever  sub- 
scribe to  the  capital  stock  of  any  railroad  corporation,  or  become  a  pur- 
chaser of  the  bonds,  or  make  donation  to,  or  loan  its  credit,  directly  or 
indirectly,  in  aid  of  any  such  corporation;  but  nothing  herein  contained 
shall  affect  the  validity  of  any  bonds  or  debts  incurred  under  existing 
laws,  nor  l)e  construed  to  prohibit  the  General  Assembly  from  authoriz- 
ing any  town  or  city  to  protect  by  additional  appro j)riations  of  money 
or  credit,  any  railroad  debt  contracted  prior  to  the  adoption  of  this 
amendment. 


AMENDMENTS   TO    CHARTER 


AND  OTHER 


ACTS   EELATING  THERETO. 


I 


APPEOPEIATIONS. 


I.    For  public  celebrations. 
II.    For  improvement  of  navigation  of 
Connecticut  river. 


III.  Annual  estimates  to  be  made,  and 

not  to  be  exceeded. 

IV.  For  public  library. 


Section  1.     That  the  Court  of  Commou  Council  of  the  fow  made. 

O,  A«|  vol.  0,   p>9o0« 

City  of  Hartford  be,  and  hereby  is,  authorized  and  empow- 
ered by  concurrent  vote,  to  appropriate  at  its  discretion  from 
time  to  time,  sums  of  money  for  the  purpose  of  defraying  the 
expenses  of  public  celebrations  and  receptions  within  said 
city ;  said  sums  of  money  so  appropriated  not  to  exceed  the  Limitotion. 
amount  of  five  hundred  dollars  for  any  one  public  celebration 
or  reception. 

Sec.  2.     The  mayor  of  said  City  of  Hartford  is  hereby  KaThf."""'" 
authorized  and  empowered  to  ^  administer  oaths  within  said 
city. 

Approved,  June  10,  1868. 


38  APPROPRIATIONS. 

II. 

s''A!rvoi.Tp'!^3i7.  That  the  City  of  Hartford  be,  and  is  hereby,  authorized  to 
expend  a  sum  not  exceeding  five  thousand  dollars  annually  in 
improving  the  navigation  of  the  Connecticut  river,  provided 
the  same  be  voted  and  authorized  by  a  majority  of  the  Board 
of  Aldei*men  and  Common  Council  of  said  city. 
Approved,  July  27,  1867. 

III. 

Estimates  of  ex.         It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of 

penditure  to  be  •/ 

oeeded.*"^"*"^'''    thc  City  of  Hartford  at  their  last  meeting  in  each  fiscal  year. 

S.  A.,  vol.  8,  p.  264.  "^  o  c/  . 

to  make  an  estimate  of  the  sums  necessary  to  defray  the 
expenses  of  the  several  departments  of  said  city  for  the 
ensuing  year,  and  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  said  city 
for  the  year  ensuing  shall  not  make  any  appropriation  or 
authorize  the  expenditure  of  any  sum  in  excess  of  the  esti- 
mates made  as  aforesaid,  excepting  upon  a  two-thirds  vote  of 
said  Court  of  Common  Council ;  nor  shall  any  of  the  depart- 
ments of  said  city  expend  any  sum  in  excess  of  said  esti- 
mates, except  the  same  be  authorized  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of 
said  Court  of  Common  Council. 
Approved,  March  21,  1879. 

lY. 


free  public  library 
S.  A.,  1883,  p   -  -" 


Appropriation  for        That  thc  City  of  Hartford  be,  and  it  hereby  is,  authorized 

free  nublic  librarv.  "^  '  ^  ' 

and  empowered  to  appropriate  by  concurrent  vote  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Council  of  said  city,  and  to  expend  an- 
nually, a  sum  not  exceeding  one-fifth  of  one  mill  upon  the 
grand  list  of  said  city  last  made  and  perfected,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  supporting  and  maintaining  a  free  public  library  and 
art  gallery,  with  their  appurtenances,  and  of  furnishing 
needed  accommodations  therefor. 
Approved  March  14,  1883. 


BOUNDARIES.  39 


BOUND  AEIES. 

I.    Southern  limits  extended.  i  IV.    Division  into  seven  wards. 

II.    Western  limits  extended.  V.    Constituting  the  eighth  ward. 

III.    City  and  town  made  co-extensive.    \ 


I. 

Section  1.  That  the  territorial  limits  of  the  body  politic  ^^^^^l^^^^^f^ 
and  corporate  existing  under  the  name  of  the  City  of  Hart- 
ford shall  hereafter  consist  of  the  land  and  territorj^  included 
in  the  present  territorial  limits,  and  in  addition  thereto  the 
land  and  territory  in  this  resolution  hereinafter  described, 
viz. :  all  the  land  included  in  the  following  limits  and  bounds: 
beginning  at  a  certain  brook  where  it  crosses  New  Britain 
avenue,  in  the  town  of  Hartford,  and  in  the  line  of  the  pres- 
ent southwestern  territorial  limit  of  the  City  of  Hartford  and 
between  the  lands  of  Michael  L.  Seymour  and  J.  S.  Eood; 

I  thence  running  southerly  along  the  present  western  bank  of 
paid  brook  to  the  division  line  between  the  towns  of  Weth- 
iersfield  and  Hartford;  thence  running  easterly  upon  said 
division  line  to  the  (Connecticut  river;  thence  northerly  along 
said  river  to  the  present  southeasterl}^  territorial  limit  of  the 
City  of  Hartford ;  thence  from  said  point  westerly  along  the 
present  southerly  line  of  said  city  limits  to  place  of  begin- 
ning; and  all  the  land  included  in  said  bounds  is  hereby 
annexed  and  added  to  the  corporate  territory  of  the  City  of 
Hartford ;  and  shall  be  included  for  purposes  of  suffrage,  and 
for  all  other  proper  purposes  in  the  fourth  ward  of  said  city. 
In  making  assessments  for  benefits  in  building  sewers  through  sewers. 
said  territory  hereby  added  to  the  city,  the  proper  boards  of 
assessment  may  make  proportional  assessment  u^^on  all  per- 
sons whose  land  in  their  judgment  is  specially  benefited  by 
such  sewers,  whether  their  land  abuts  upon  said  proposed 
sewers  or  not. 

Sec.  2.     No  city  tax  exceeding  six-tenths  of  one  mill  on  a  Taction, 
dollar  of  the  grand  list  shall  be  laid  or  levied  upon  anj^  land 
or  lands  hereby  added  to  said  eit3\  so  long  as  said  land  is  or 


40  BOUNDARIES. 

shall  be  exclusively  used  for  farming  purposes,  and  has  a 
market  value  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars  an  acre. 
Exemption.  j^^^  jjq  ^Ity  tax  shall  be  imposed  upon  those  meadow  lands 

included  in  this  addition  lying  upon  the  east  of  Wethersfield 
avenue  and  not  protected  by  a  dyke. 
Approved,  July  26,  1871. 

II. 

ItylxtenS'"'  Section  1.  Thc  territorial  limits  of  the  body  politic  and 
"'°'  '^"  ■  corporate  existing  under  the  name  of  the  City  of  Hartford 
shall  hereafter  consist  of  the  land  and  territorj^  included  in 
the  present  territorial  limits  thereof,  and  in  addition  thereto 
of  all  the  land  now  lying  within  the  town  of  Hartford, 
except  that  portion  thereof  lying  northerly  of  the  present 
north  line  of  said  city,  and  of  the  same  line  produced  west- 
erly until  it  intersects  the  present  boundary  line  between  the 
towns  of  Hartford  and  West  Hartford ;  and  all  the  land  and 
territory  within  the  town  of  Hartford,  except  as  aforesaid,  is 
hereby  annexed  and  added  to  the  corporate  territory  of  the 
City  of  Hartford,  and  so  much  of  the  same  as  lies  within  the 

Division  by  wards,  gpg^  votlug  dlstrlct  of  thc  towu  of  Hartford  shall  be  included 
in  the  first  ward  of  said  City  of  Hartford;  so  much  of  the 
same  as  lies  within  the  second  voting  district  of  said  town 
shall  be  included  in  the  second  ward  of  said  city;  so  much 
thereof  as  lies  within  the  third  voting  district  of  said  town 
shall  be  included  in  the  third  ward  of  said  city;  so  much 
thereof  as  lies  within  the  fourth  voting  district  of  said  town 
shall  be  included  in  the  fourth  ward  of  said  city,  and  so  much 
thereof  as  lies  within  the  seventh  voting  district  of  said  town 
shall  be  included  in  the  seventh  ward  of  said  city :  provided. 

Taxation.  dlways,  that  no  city  tax  exceeding  six-tenths  of  one  mill  on  a 

dollar  of  the  grand  list  shall  be  laid  or  levied  upon  any  land 
or  lands  within  the  territory  added  to  the  said  city  by  virtue 
of  this  act,  so  long  as  said  land  is  or  shall  be  used  exclusively 
for  farming  purposes,  or  is  vacant  or  unoccupied  land,  and 
has  an  assessed  value  not  exceeding  six  hundred  dollars  an 
acre,  and  that  all  farming  produce  and  all  stock  used  in  farm- 
ing, and  all  implements  of  husbandry  belonging  to  persons 


BOUNDARIES.  41 

residing  on  said  territory,  so  annexed,  shall  be  exempt  in  the 
same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent  i'rom  such  city  taxation  : 
and  provided,  also,  that  the  persons  now  and  hereafter  resid- 
ing on  said  territory  hereby  added  to  said  city,  and  the  estate 
of  such  persons,  both  real  and  personal,  within  said  added 
territory,  and  the  real  estate  lying  within  said  added  terri- 
tory, and  owned  by  persons  residing  outside  of  the  same, 
shall  not  be  liable  to  taxation,  or  in  any  other  mode  for  any 
now  outstanding,  funded  or  bonded  debt  of  said  city,  or  for 
interest  on  the  same,  excepting  "capitol  bonds"  and  the 
interest  thereon :  provided,  that  this  act  shall  not  be  so  con- 
strued as  to  exempt  from  liability  any  property  invested  in 
business  within  the  present  city  limits  and  now  liable  to 
taxation  for  said  city  debt. 
Approved,  July  9,  1873. 

III. 

Section  1.     That  the  territorial  limits  of  the  body  politic  S?e\TnS''"*^ 
and  •  corporate  existing  under  the  name  of  the  City  of  Hart-   "  "'     '  ''* 
ford  shall   hereafter  consist  of  all  the   land  and   territory 
situate  within  the  present  limits  of  the  town  of  Hartford,  so 
that  hereafter  the  limits  of  said  city  and  town  shall  be  the, 
same. 

Sec.  2.  No  city  tax,  exceeding  six-tenths  of  one  mill  on  a  Taxation. 
dollar  of  the  grand  list,  shall  be  laid  or  levied  upon  any  land 
or  the  buildings  on  the  same  which  are  added  to  the  terri- 
torial limits  of  the  City  of  Hartford  by  the  foregoing  section, 
so  long  as  said  land  has  an  assessed  value  not  exceeding  six 
hundred  dollars  per  acre,  exclusive  of  the  buildings  thereon, 
and  all  farming  produce  and  all  stock  used  in  farming,  and 
all  implements  of  husbandry  belonging  to  persons  residing 
on  said  territory  so  annexed,  and  all  personal  property 
belonging  to  persons  now  residing  on  said  territory  so 
annexed,  so  long  as  they  shall  continue  to  reside  thereon, 
shall  be  exempt  in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent 
from  such  city  taxation.  And  the  persons  now  and  hereafter 
residing  on  said  territory  hereby  added  to  said  city,  and  the 
estate  of  such  persons,  both  real  and  personal,  within  said 


42 


BOUNDARIES. 


Public  improve- 
ments. 


Voting  place. 


Building  line. 


added  territory,  and  the  real  estate  lying  within  said  added 
territory  and  owned  by  persons  residing- outside  of  the  same 
shall  not  be  liable  to  taxation  or  in  any  other  mode  for  any 
now  outstanding  funded  or  bonded  debt  of  said  city  or  for 
interest  thereon,  excepting  capitol  bonds  and  the  interest 
thereon :  p?'Ovided,  that  this  act  shall  not  b5  so  construed  as 
to  exempt  from  liability  any  jiroperty  invested  in  business 
within  the  present  limits  of  said  city,  and  now  liable  for 
taxation  for  said  city  debt. 

Sec.  3.  The  said  City  of  Hartford  shall  not  have  power  to! 
order  to  be  made  any  new  street,  sewer,  curb,  gutter,  side- 
walk, or  other  public  imj^rovement  of  any  kind,  within  or 
upon  the  territory  added  to  the  limits  of  said  city  by  this 
resolution,  except  upon  the  written  application  of  not  less 
than  twenty -five  real  estate  owners  residing  and  owning  land 
within  the  territory  so  added  to  the  limits  of  said  city. 

Sec.  4.  The  said  land  and  territory  hereby  added  to  said 
cit}^  shall  be  included  in  and  be  a  part  of  the  seventh  ward  of 
said  city. 

Sec.  5.  The  ordinance  of  said  city  relating  to  building 
lines  and  to  building  permits  shall  not  be  applicable  to  the 
territory  so  added  to  said  city  while  said  territory  shall  be 
used  for  farming  purposes. 

Sec.  6.  No  city  tax  of  any  kind  shall  be  laid  or  levied 
upon  that  tract  of  land  known  as  the  Hartford  North  Mea- 
dows, the  boundaries  of  which  were  established  by  a  decree 
of  the  superior  court  for  Hartford  county,  passed  at  its 
March  term,  A.  D.  1868,  upon  the  petition  of  Henry  Brake 
and  Samuel  Mather,  so  long  as  the  same  shall  remain  a  com- 
mon field,  and  the  roads  therein  shall  be  kept  and  maintained 
by  the  proprietors  of  said  meadows. 

Approved,  April  14,  1881. 


lY. 


City  divided  into 

seven  wards. 

P.  A.,  1869,  p.  .324. 


That  said  City  of  Hartford  shall  be,  and  hereby  is,  divided 
into  seven  wards,  as  follows,  viz. : 

First  Ward.  Beginning  at  the  intersection  of  the  center 
lines  of  Main  and  Church  streets,  and  running  thence  north- 


BOUNDARIES.  43 

crly  and  westerly  through  the  center  line  of  Main  street  to 
its  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  AUiany  avenue;  thence 
westerly  through  the  center  line  of  Albany  avenue  and  Albany 
road,  so  called,  to  the  western  boundary  line  of  said  city; 
thence  southerly  on  said  western  boundary  line  to  its  inter- 
section with  the  center  line  (produced)  of  Collins  street; 
thence  on  said  line  through  the  center  line  of  said  Collins 
street  to  its  intersection  with  Garden  street ;  thence  through 
the  center  line  of  said  Garden  street  to  Myrtle  street ;  thence 
through  the  center  of  Myrtle  street  to  its  intersection  with 
Spring  street;  thence  through  the  center  of  Spring  street  to 
its  intersection  with  the  road  and  alley  leading  from  Spring 
street  to  Church  street;  thence  through  the  center  of  said 
road  and  alley  and  Church  street  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

Second  Ward.     Beginning  at  the  point  of  intersection  of  ^*'='"**"*"^- 
Main    and   Church    streets,   and    running   thence   westerly 
through   the   center   of  Church   street   to   its   termination; 
thence  through  the  center  of  a  road  and  alley  to  Spring 

I  street;  thence  through  the  center  of  Spring  street  to  Myrtle 
btreot ;  thence  through  the  center  of  Myrtle  street  to  Garden 
Itroet;  thence  northwesterly  through  the  center  of  Garden 
■treet  to  the  center  line  of  Collins  street;  thence  westerly 
through  the  center  line  of  Collins  street,  and  said  line  pro- 
duced to  the  western  boundary  of  said  city ;  thence  southerly 
along  the  said  western  boundary  to  the  south  fork  of  Park 
river,  so  called;  thence  easterly  through  the  center  of  said 
river  to  its  intersection  with  Main  street;  thence  northerly 
through  the  center  of  Main  street  to  the  place  of  beginning. 
Third  Ward.  Beginning  at  the  point  of  intersection  of  the 
eastern  line  of  said  city,  and  the  center  line  of  Park  river, 
and  i-unning  thence  westerly  through  the  center  of  said 
river,  and  the  south  fork  thereof,  to  its  intersection  with  the 
center  line  of  a  road  in  continuation  of  Park  street;  thence 
easterly  through  the  center  of  said  road  to  Washington 
street;  thence  northerly  on  the  center  line  of  Washington 
street  to  Buckingham  street;  thence  easterly  through  the 
center  of  Buckingham  street  to  its  intersection  with  Main 
street;   thence  southerly  through  the  center  of  Main  street 


o  Third  ward. 


44 


BOUNDARIES. 


to  its  intersection  with  Charter  Oak  avenue ;  thence  on  the 
center  line  of  Charter  Oak  avenue,  and  the  same  line  con- 
tinued, to  its  intersection  with  the  eastern  boundary  line  of 
said  city;  thence  on  said  eastern  houndar}'  line  to  place  of 
beginning. 

Fourth  Ward.  Beginning  at  a  point  on  the  eastern  line  of 
said  city  at  its  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  Charter 
Oak  avenue  continued,  and  running  thence  westerly  to  the 
center  line  of  Charter  Oak  avenue,  and  thence  through  the 
center  of  Charter  Oak  avenue  to  its  intersection  Avith  Main 
street ;  thence  through  the  center  of  Main  street  to  its  inter- 
section with  Buckingham  street;  thence  through  the  center 
of  Buckingham  street  to  its  intersection  with  Washington 
street;  thence  southerly  through  the  center  of  Washington 
street  to-  its  intersection  with  Park  street ;  thence  westerly 
through  the  center  of  Park  street  and  the  road  in  continua- 
tion of  it,  to  the  western  boundary  line  of  the  city;  thence 
southerly  on  said  boundary  line  to  the  southern  boundary 
line  of  the  city;  thence  easterly  on  said  southern  boundary 
line  to  the  eastern  boundary  line  of  the  city,  and  thence 
northerly  on  said  eastern  boundary  line  to  the  place  of 
beginning. 

Fifth  Ward.  Beginning  at  the  point  of  intersection  of  the 
east  line  of  the  city  and  the  center  line  of  Kilbourn  street, 
and  running  thence  westerly  on  said  center  line  to  its  inter- 
section with  the  center  line  of  Front  street;  thence  northerly 
through  the  center  of  Front  street  to  its  intersection  with 
Temple  street ;  thence  westerly  through  the  center  of  Temple 
street  to  its  intersection  with  Main  street;  thence  southerly 
through  the  center  of  Main  street  to  its  intersection  with  the 
center  line  of  Park  river;  thence  easterly  on  the  center  line 
of  said  river  to  the  eastern  boundary  line  of  the  city;  and 
thence  northerly  on  said  eastern  boundary  line  to  the  place 
of  beginning. 

Sixth  Ward.  Beginning  at  the  point  of  intersection  of  the 
center  line  of  Kilbourn  street  and  the  eastern  boundary  line 
of  the  city ;  and  running  thence  northerly  on  said  boundary 
line  to  its  intersection  with  the  northern  boundary  line  of  the 


BOUNDARIES.  45 

city;  thenco  westerly  on  said  northern  boundary  line  to  its 
intersection  with  the  center  line  of  the  railroad  of  the  Hart- 
ford and  New  Haven  Eailroad  Company ;  thence  southwest- 
erly on  the  center  lino  of  said  railroad  to  its  intersection  with 
the  center  of  Windsor  street ;  thence  southerly  through  the 
center  of  Windsor  street  to  its  intersection  with  Main  street; 
thence  southerly  through  the  center  of  Main  street  to  Temple 
street;  thence  easterly  through  the  center  of  Temple  street 
to  Front  street ;  thence  southerly  through  the  center  of  Front 
street  to  Kilbourn  street ;  thence  easterly  through  the  center 
of  Kilbourn  street  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

Seventh  Ward.  Beginning  at  the  intersection  of  Main  and  seventh  ward. 
Windsor  streets  and  running  thence  northwesterly  through 
the  center  of  Main  street  to  Albany  avenue;  thence  westerly 
through  the  center  of  Albany  avenue  and  Albany  road,  so 
called,  to  the  western  boundary  line  of  said  city;  thence 
northerly,  on  said  western  boundary  line  to  the  northern 
boundary  line  of  said  city;  thence  easterly  on  said  northern 
boundary  line  to  the  center  line  of  the  railroad  of  the  Hart- 
ford and  New  Haven  Railroad  Company;  thence  southerly 
on  the  center  line  of  said  railroad  to  the  center  line  of  Wind- 
sor street;  thence  southerly  on  the  center  line  of  Windsor 
street  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

Approved,  July  9,  1869. 

Y. 

Section  1.     That  that  portion  of  the  fourth  ward  of  the  Eighth  ward. 

^  S.  A.,  vol.  8,  p.  51. 

City  of  Hartford,  as  is  included  within  the  following  bound- 
aries, to  wit:  beginning  at  a  point  on  the  southern  line  of 
said  city  at  its  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  Maple 
avenue,  and  running  thence  northerly,  through  the  center  of 
said  Maple  avenue  to  its  intersection  with  Webster  street; 
thence  through  the  center  of  Webster  street  to  its  intersec- 
tion Avith  Washington  street;  thence  through  the  center  of 
Washington  street  to  its  intersection  with  Park  street; 
thence  westerly  through  the  center  of  Park  street,  and  the 
road  in  continuation  of  it  to  the  Avestern  boundary  line  of 
the  city;  thence  southerly  along  said  boundary  line  to  the 


46  charter:   how  amended. 

southern  boundary  lino  of  the  city;   thence  easterly  along  * 
said  southern  boundary  line  to  place  of  beginning,  shall  con- 
stitute and  be  the  eighth  ward  of  said  City  of  Hartford. 

Sec.  2.  At  the  annual  meeting  of  said  City  of  Hartford, 
holden  next  after  this  act  shall  take  effect,  to  wit :  on  the  first 
Monday  of  April,  A.  D.  1877,  there  shall  be  chosen  in  said 
eighth  ward  two  aldermen  and  four  councilmen ;  and  one  of 
said  aldermen  shall  hold  office  for  one  year  and  the  other  for 
two  years,  their  respective  terms  of  office  to  be  designated  on 
the  ballot  of  the  electors;  and  at  all  subsequent  annual  meet- 
ings there  shall  be  chosen  as  aforesaid  one  alderman  and  four 
councilmen,  who  shall  hold  office  as  in  the  other  wards  of  said 
city. 

Sec.  3.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith  are 
hereby  repealed. 

Approved,  June  27,  1875. 


CHAETEE:   HOW  AMENDED. 

N^fice  oi*^Stitio?*"      -^^  petition  for  the  incorporation  of  any  bank,  or  savings 

for  alteratiou  of  ii  i:»j^i  ix  j.*  x'a.i  ij^  j?  '  j_ 

charter.  bauk,  or  lor  the   alteration  oi   the   charter  oi   any  city  oi', 

U.  S.,  p.  T9,  §  7,  '  J  J  A 

borough,  shall  be  heard  by  the  General  Assembly,  unlesfi 
public  notice  shall  have  been  given  b}^  advertisement  in  souk 
newspaper  published  in  the  town  where  such  bank,  or  saving^ 
bank  is  intended  to  be,  or  where  such  city  or  borough  i{ 
located,  if  any,  otherwise  in  some  newspaper  published  in  th( 
same  county,  at  least  three  weeks  before  the  first  day  of  th< 
session  to  which  it  is  preferred,  stating  the  proposed  capital 
and  location  of  such  bank,  the  proposed  location  of  sue! 
savings  bank,  or  the  proposed  alteration  of  such  charter;  bul 
such  publication  shall  not  dispense  with  any  other  notice 
required  by  law. 


CITY   CLERK  —  CITY    MAP.  47 


CITY  OLEEK. 

Whereas,  Owing  to  the  temporary  absence  of  the  city  s.  a.,  voi.  5,  p.  4m. 
(  lerk  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  a  city  clerk  pro  tempore  has 
been  appointed  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  said 
city. 

Section  1.  That  the  said  appointment  of  said  city  clerk  ^Pi|^;^^;j|''"' 
pro  tempore  is  hereby  validated  and  confirmed,  and  all  official 
acts  heretofore  done  b}^  him  while  acting  in  said  capacity, 
are  hereby  legalized,  and  said  city  clerk  ^ro  tempore  is  hereby  J^j^j;,^^^^^^^  *=•"'' 
authorized  to  perform  all  the  duties,  and  is  hereby  clothed 
with  all  the  legal  authority  of  the  city  clerk  of  said  city 
while  he  continues  to  act  in  said  capacitj^. 

Sec  2.     The  Court  of  Common  Council  of  said  city  are  common  councn 

«/  empowered  to  ap- 

hereby  empowered,  in  case  of  the  temporary  absence  or  ina-  uwpor^."^''^^^'''' 
bility  of  any  city  clerk  of  said  city,  by  concurrent  vote  to 
appoint  a  city  clerk  pro  tempore^  whose  official  acts,  while  he 
continues   in   said   capacity,  shall  be   of  the   same   binding  po^^-'-s. 

ithority  as  the  official  acts  of  said  city  clerk. 
A-Pproved,  June  25,  1861. 


CITY  MAP. 

Section  1.  The  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  {;,°^»«\|,?;;,^^,^^^^^^ 
Hartford  shall  have  power,  by  a  majority  of  the  members  of  a?on  ma^Tof  i|fi. 
each  branch,  present  and  absent,  subject  to  the  approval  of 
the  mayor  of  said  cit}^,  to  make,  alter,  and  repeal  ordinances, 
for  the  purpose  of  making  the  map  of  said  city,  made  in 
1866,  by  the  city  government,  operative  and  binding,  relative 
to  the  lines  of  streets  projected  and  laid  out  on  the  same,  and 
also  for  the  purpose  of  making  such  street  and  building  lines 
as  may  hereafter  be  mapped  out  or  projected  by  authority  of 


48 


COMMISSIONERS. 


Council  shall  havi 
power  to  change 
same. 


the  city  government,  operative  and  binding*  on  said  city,  and 
on  all  parties  whose  property  is  affected  thereby:  provided 
that  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  said  city  shall  have  the 
power,  at  any  time,  to  lay  out  and  adopt  streets  in  said  cit} . 
and  to  change  the  lines  of  the  streets  as  now  projected  and 
laid  out  on  said  map. 
Approved,  July  9,  1869. 


COMMISSIONEES. 


I.    street  commissioners;   their  powers 

and  duties. 
II.    Place  of  disqualified  street  commis- 
sioner; how  filled. 


III.  Constitution  of  water  board. 

IV.  Appointment  of  members  of  the 

various  commissions. 


Board  of  street  com- 
missioners created. 
P.  A.,  1869,  p.  292. 


How  appointed. 


Terms  of  office. 


I. 

Section  1.     There  shall  be  a  board  of  street  commissioners 
of  the  Cit}^  of  Hartford,  consisting  of  six  freeholders  of  said 
city  who  shall  not  be  members  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Council.     At   the   first   meeting   of  the  Court   of  Common 
Council,  held  after  the  ratification  of  this  act  by  said  couri 
as  hereinafter  provided,  said  Common  Council  by  concurrei 
vote  shall  choose  six  persons,  who  shall  constitute  the  boai 
of  street   commissioners,  and,  in  voting   for   such   commit 
sioners,  each  member  of  the  council  shall  vote  for  three  pel 
sons  and  no  more,  whose  names  shall  all  be  written  or  j^rintt 
upon   one  piece   of  paper;   and  the  six  persons  who  sha^ 
receive  the  highest  number  of  votes  shall  be  declared  electee 
whether  they  receive  a  majority  of  all  the  votes  cast  or  nof 
The  persons  so  elected  shall  hold  their  office,  two  for  the  ten 
of  one  year,  two  for  the  term  of  two  years,  and  tAvo  fbr  tl 
term  of  three  j^ears,  from  and  after  the  second  Monday  of 
April,  previous  to  the  time  when  said  board  is  so  chosen, 
which  term  shall  be  decided  by  lot,  to  be  drawn  in  the  pres- 


COMMISSIONERS.  49 

(tice  of  the  mayor  of  the  city  and  the  city  clerk;  and  in 
drawing  said  lots,  the  persons  so  elected  shall  be  divided  into 
t  wo  classes:  the  first  class  to  consist  of  the  three  persons  who  deS'n^'*''"* 
I'oceive  the  highest  number  of  votes,  and  the  second  class  of 
those  who  received  the  lowest  number  of  votes,  and  were 
elected  by  said  council.  Each  class  shall  draw  by  them- 
selves, one  person  only  in  each  class  shall  hold  office  for  each 
ol"  the  terms  above  mentioned.     At  the  annual  city  election  second  board ;  h«w 

J  chosen,  and  terms 

of  said  city,  first  held  after  the  ratification  and  acceptance  of  °'""""'" 
this  act  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  as  hereinafter  pro- 
vided, and  at  each  annual  city  election  thereafter,  there  shall 
l»o  chosen  by  ballot  from  among  the  freeholders  of  said  city 
t  wo  members  of  said  board,  who  shall  hold  office  for  the  term 
of  three  years  from  the  second  Monday  of  April  of  the  year 
ill  which  they  are  so  elected,  and  until  their  respective  suc- 
cessors shall  be  chosen  and  qualified,  and  in  voting  for  such 
members  of  such  board,  each  elector  may  vote  for  one  person 
and  no  more;  and  the  two  persons  having  the  highest  num- 
l»cr  of  votes  shall  be  declared  elected,  and  in  case  of  vacancy  Jj^""*'-  ^""^ 
in  said  board  by  death,  resignation,  or  otherwise,  the  mem- 
Itors  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  said  city,  elected  to 
said  court  by  the  same  political  party  which  elected  the  mem- 
l>cr  of  said  board  whose  place  shall  so  become  vacant,  shall 
nominate  some  freeholder  of  said  city  as  a  member  of  said 
Itoard  for  the  unexpired  term,  to  fill  such  vacancy;  and  the. 
])crson  so  nominated  shall  be  appointed  to  fill  such  vacancy 
l>y  the  mayor  of  said  city,  and  shall  hold  said  office  for  said 
nil  expired  term.     The  members  of  said  board  may  be  paid  ^embwsThow"' 
liom  the  city  treasury  such  sums  as  shall  be  fixed  by  the  ^'"'*' 
<  ourt  of  Common  Council. 

Sec.  2.     Said  board  shall  keep  a  record  of  all  their  acts  and  ^^^\^  proceed- 
proceedings,  and  an  account  of  expenditures  and  receipts, 
which  shall  be  open  to  the  inspection  of  any  member  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Council.     Said  board  may,  if  they  see  fit, 
aj)point  a  clerk  to  keep  such  record  and  accounts,  and  shall  cierk- 
aj)point  a  superintendent  of  streets,  to  hold  office  during  the  superintendent. 
]tleasure  of  said   board,  and  to  act  under  the  instructions 
1  hereof,  in   the   immediate   care   and   management   of  such 


50 


COMMISSIONERS. 


Compensation  of 
clerk  and  superin- 
tendent. 


Powers  of  board. 


Construction  of 
hiKhwaj-8,  etc. 


Repairs  of  high- 
ways, etc. 


Obstructions  and 
nuisances. 


Street  lamps. 


Legal  counsel. 


Comm<m  Council 
shall  pass  no  vote 
establiijhing  street, 
sidewalk,  or  sewer, 
until  after  reference 
to  board. 


works  as  maybe  under  the  charge  of  said  board;  and  said 
clerk  and  superintendent  of  streets  shall  receive  such  com- 
pensation for  their  services  as  the  Court  of  Common  Council 
may  grant. 

Sec.  3.  Said  board  shall  have  power,  and  it  shall  be  their 
duty,  to  cause  to  be  executed  all  orders  of  the  Court  of  Com- 
mon Council,  for  the  construction  or  alteration  of  highways, 
streets,  sewers,  gutters,  sidewalks,  and  crosswalks,  the  ex- 
change or  sale  of  highways,  the  establishment  of  building 
lines,  the  erection  of  street  lamps,  the  raising,  filling  up,  or 
draining  of  low  grounds,  and  all  other  orders  of  said  court 
for  the  construction,  alteration,  or  repair  of  other  public 
works  not  expressly  ordered  to  be  executed  or  superintended 
by  other  officers  or  persons.  Said  board  shall  also  cause  the 
prompt  completion  of  all  necessary  repairs  of  streets,  high- 
ways, sewers,  and  public  works  within  the  limits  of  the 
streets,  highways,  and  thoroughfares  of  the  city,  other  than 
public  buildings;  shall  keep  all  public  places,  streets,  and 
highways,  clear  of  obstructions  and  nuisances;  shall  cause 
the  prompt  removal  of  all  filth,  encroachments,  incumbrances, 
and  obstructions,  and  shall  require  all  persons  to  conform  to 
the  city  ordinances  in  the  use  of  such  streets,  highways,  and 
public  places ;  shall  suj^erintend  and  provide  for  the  lighting 
of  the  street  lamj)s,  and  the  repair  of  the  same,  and,  in  gen- 
eral, may  do  all  acts  necessary  or  proper  in  the  execution  of  j 
the  powers  and  duties  aforesaid.*  Said  board  shall  havej 
power,  in  behalf  of  said  city,  to  employ  the  city  attorney  to] 
prosecute  or  defend  any  action  at  law  or  in  equity,  civil  orj 
criminal  in  its  nature,  whenever,  in  their  judgment,  it  may 
be  necessary  in  carrying  out  the  powers  and  duties  of  their 
office. 

Sec.  4.  The  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  pass  no  vote 
laying  out,  establishing,  or  ordering  to  be  constructed,  any 
new  street,  sidewalk,  or  sewer,  or  any  alteration  or  improve- 
ment, relating  to  streets  and  sewers,  until  such  vote,  or  the 


aCity  is  not  liable  for  the  acts  of  its  officers  whose  duty  it  is  to  repair  highways, 
and  who,  in  the  performance  of  this  public  duty,  occasion  damage  to  individuals. 
Judge  V.  Meriden,  38  Conn.,  90. 


COMMISSIONERS.  &1 

petition  asking  for  the  passage  of  such  vote,  shall  have  been 
referred  to  said  board  of  street  commissioners  for  investigation. 

Sec.  5.     Said  board  shall  act  as  a  court  for  the  assessment  ^meX^^d  ar!'*''' 
of  betterments  and  appraisals  of  damages,  and  all  powers  Sd  in'i^wd.*''^'' 
noAv  vested  by  the  charter  in  the  Court  of  Common  Council 
in  reference  to  the  appraisal  of  damages  and  assessment  of 
betterments,  shall  hereafter  be  exercised  by  said  board.     Pro- 
vided, That  the  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  continue  to  prXX  mauner'^f 

1  .  .TIT  11  «  assessment  and  ap- 

have  power  to  prescribe,  by  ordinance,  the  manner  of  pro-  praisais. 
ceeding  in  such  assessment  and  appraisal,  and  that  an  appeal 
shall  be  allowed  to  any  person  aggrieved  by  any  appraisal  of 
damage  or  assessment  of  betterments  to  the  tribunal,  and  in  tXl  ^'""'°  "^ 
the  time  and  manner  which  may  be  by  law  provided. 

Sec.  6.  Said  board  shall,  on  the  first  day  of  January,  in  LToxVuVunrer 
each  year,  make  a  report  to  the  Court  of  Common  Council 
of  said  city  of  all  receipts,  and  from  what  sources,  and  of  all 
expenditures,  and  for  what  purposes,  which  have  been  received 
and  expended  during  the  previous  year,  and  shall  also  specify 
what  orders  of  said  court  have  been  complied  with,  and  what 
orders  have  not  been  carried  out,  and  the  reasons  for  the 
same ;  and  shall  present  said  report,  with  such  recommenda- 
tions as  they  may  deem  best,  concerning  the  management  of 
their  department,  to  said  Court  of  Common  Council,  at  its 
first  regular  meeting  after  said  first  day  of  January. 

Sec.  7.  This  act  shall  take  effect  whenever  the  Court  of  R''tio«a"»"  "f  =*''• 
Common  Council,  by  concurrent  action  shall  vote  to  ratify 
and  accept  the  same ;  and  whenever  said  court  shall  vote  so 
to  ratify,  this  act  shall  be  and  become  a  part  of  the  charter 
of  said  city,  and  thereupon  all  acts,  and  j)arts  of  acts,  incon- 
sistent herewith  are  repealed ;  and  upon  said  ratification,  the 
office,  duties  and  emoluments  of  street  commissioner,  shall  {^^sLuwSuin; 
thereupon  cease  and  be  at  an  end. 

Ai:>proved,  July  9,  1869. 

II. 

Whenever  two  or  more  members  of  the  board  of  street  J^^"^^;^'^°J  ^°*''^ 
commissioners  of  the  City  of  Hartford  shall  be  disqualified  duquaiincauon. 

•^  i  8.  A.,  vol.  7,  p.  673. 

by  reason  of  interest  or  other  cause  from  acting  upon  any 


S.  A.,  vol.  &,  p.VTO. 


52  COMMISSIONERS. 

assessment  or  other  matter  pending  before  said  board  requir- 
ing the  action  of  a  majority  of  the  whole  of  said  board,  the 
mayor  of  said  city  may  appoint  two  or  more  freeholders  of 
said  city,  not  members  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  to 
serve  in  the  places  of  said  members  while  so  temporarily  dis- 
qualified; and  the  persons  so  appointed  by  the  mayor  shall 
have,  while  acting  as  temporary  members  of  said  board,  the 
same  powers  and  duties  as  are  by  law  conferred  upon  the 
regularly  aj^pointed  members  thereof 
Approved,  June  24,  1874. 

III. 

^'nsui'!^' ^"""^        Section  1.     The  board  of  water  commissioners  of  the  City 
of  Hartford  shall,  after  the  second  Monday  in  Aj)ril,  A.  D. 

1867,  consist  of  six  persons,  who  shall  be  chosen  as  follows, 
and  shall  hold  office  until  their  respective  successors  shall  be 
elected  and  qualified.  Said  city  shall  annually,  at  the  annual 
city  meetings  for  the  choice  of  city  officers,  choose  two  per- 
sons by  ballot  to  be  members  of  said  board,  who  shall  hold 
their  offices  for  the  term  of  three  years ;  and  in  voting  for 
said  officers  each  person  shall  vote  for  one  person  for  water 
commissioner  and  no  more ;  the  two  persons  who  shkll  have 
the  highest  number  of  votes  shall  be  deemed  to  be  elected. 

Sec.  2.  The  board  of  commissioners  chosen  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act,  shall,  until  the  second  Monday  in  April, 
A.  D.  1868,  act  in  concert  with  those  heretofore  elected  during 
their  several  terms  as  the  board  of  water  commissioners  of 
the  City  of  Hartford :  and  after  said  second  Monday  of  April, 

1868,  the  six  commissioners  who  shall  then  have  been  chosen 
under  the  foregoing  provisions  shall  constitute  the  board  of 
water  commissioners  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  and  shall  dis- 
charge the  duties  and  possess  all  the  powers  and  privileges  of 
the  present  board. 

Sec.  3.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  this  act 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Approved,  July  21,  1865. 


COMMISSIONERS.  53 

TV. 

Section  1.     That  the  mayor  of  said  City  of  Hartford  shall,  tovZ^sZZ^s! 
by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  board  of  aldermen   "  "     '^' 
of  said  city  appoint  the  members  of  the  several  boards  of 
water   commissioners,  street   commissioners,  police  commis- 
sioners, fire  commissioners,  and  park  commissioners,  of  said 
city,  and  when  members  of  any  of  said  boards  of  commis- 
sioners are  to  be  appointed  for  different  terms,  the  term  for  hordesignTufd?*^' 
which  each  member  is  to  serve  shall  be  designated  by  the 
mayor  at  the  time  of  making  the  appointments  as  aforesaid. 

Sec  2.     The   appointment   of   the  members   of   the   said  fion^rwr'' 
several  boards  of  commissioners  as  aforesaid  shall  be  made  in 
such  a  manner  as  to  divide  the  membership  of  each  of  said 
boards  as  nearly  as  may  be  equally  between  the  two  leading 
political  parties  for  the  time  being. 

Sec.  3.     Whenever  a  vacancy  shall  occur  in  any  of  said  fl,'Jed!'°**''' ^*"' 
several  boards  of  commissioners  it  shall  be  filled  in  the  man- 
ner provided  aforesaid  for  the  appointment  of  members. 

Sec.  4.     The  mayor  of  said  City  of  Hartford,  by  and  with  Removal  of  mem 
the  advice  and  consent  of  any  four  members  of  the  board  of 
aldermen,  may  remove  any  member  of  either  of  said  boards 
of  commissioners  for  cause. 

Sec.  5.     The  members  of  either  of  said  boards  of  commis-  Snuc. '°  ""*" '° 
sioners  now  in  office  shall  retain  their  positions  during  the 
term  for  which  they  were  elected,  subject  to  removal  in  the 
manner  provided  for  in  the  fourth  section  of  this  act. 

Sec.  6.     So  much  of  the  charter   and   ordinances  of  said  ^®p^*^- 
City  of  Hartford  as  is  inconsistent  herewith  is  hereby  re- 
pealed. 

Sec.  7.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its  passage. 

Approved,  May  23,  1872. 


54 


CHARTER   AND   AMENDMENTS    CONFIRMED. 


CHAETEK  AND  AMENDMENTS  CONFIRMED. 


Charter  and  various 
amendments  con- 
firmed and  re-en- 
acted. 
S.  A.,  vol.  6,  p.  441. 


Ordinances  and 
votes  confirmed. 


To  affect  no  suits 
pending. 


Section  1.  The  charter  of  the  City  of  Hartford  as  con- 
tained in  the  resolution  of  the  General  Assembly,  entitled 
"An  Act  to  alter  the  Charter  of  the  City  of  Hartford  and  to 
combine  sundry  public  statutes  relating  thereto;"  approved 
June  24,  A.  D.  1859,  and  in  the  supplement  to  said  resolution, 
approved  June  23,  A.  D.  1859,  and  in  the  several  resolution^ 
in  amendment  and  addition  to  said  resolutions,  to  wit:  Th( 
resolution  approved  July  3,  A.  D.  1861;  the  resolution  ap 
proved  July  1,  A.  D.  1863;  the  resolution  approved  July  21. 
A.  D.  1865;  the  resolution  approved  June  20,  A.  D.  1860; 
the  resolutions  approved  July  3,  A.  D.  1861;  the  resolution 
approved  June  25,  A.  D.  1861 ;  the  resolution  approved  June 
29,  A.  D.  1862;  the  resolution  approved  June  24,  A.  D.  1863; 
the  resolution  approved  June  10,  A.  D.  1863 ;  the  resolution 
approved  July  1,  A.  D.  1863 ;  the  resolution  ajiproved  July  7, 
A.  D.  1865;  the  resolution  approved  June  20,  A.  D.  1866;  the 
resolution  approved  July  24,  A.  D.  1867;  the  resolution  ap- 
proved July  12,  A.  D.  1867 ;  and  the  resolution  approved  July 
26,  A.  D.  1867,  is  hereby  confirmed  and  enacted  word  for 
word  as  contained  in  said  several  resolutions. 

Sec.  2.  All  ordinances  and  votes  passed,  and  all  acts  of 
every  kind  whatsoever,  done  in  pursuance  of  and  under  the 
authority  of  said  resolutions  are  hereby  confirmed  and  rati 
fied,  and  declared  to  be  lawful  as  fully  and  to  the  same  extei 
as  if  each  of  said  resolutions  had  been  enacted  under  tl 
style  of  this  act.  And  the  duties,  powers  and  authority  ai 
all  other  matters,  prescribed  and  contained  in  said  resolutioi 
confirmed  and  enacted  in  the  preceding  section  are  to  be  coi 
strued  in  the  same  manner  as  if  each  of  said  resolutions  hj 
been  originally  passed  under  the  style  of  this  act.  Providec 
that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  affect  any  suit  or  pr( 
ceeding  in  law  now  pending,  in  which  the  validity  of  any 
said  resolutions  or  matters  therein  contained,  has  been  ques- 
tioned. 

Approved,  July  24,  1868. 


CONNECTICUT    RIVER.  55 


CONNECTICUT   EIVEE. 


I. 

If  any  steamboat  or  other  vessel  propelled  by  steam  shall  s,!|rfeg"!iated!" ''*''' 
approach  at  a  greater  rate  of  speed  than  six  miles  an  hour  '  ''•'''"'•  ^' '®- 
any  wharf,  pier  or  dock  in  the  City  of  Hartford  between  the 
bridge  over  Connecticut  river  and  the  southern  limits  of  said 
city,  or  the  Long  wharf  and  pier  in  New  Haven  harbor  when 
any  vessel  shall  be  lying  thereat  at  any  berth  below  the 
north  end  of  the  platform  on  the  east  side  of  the  wharf,  or 
the  wharf  or  pier  in  Bridgeport  harbor,  known  as  "  Mather's 
Dock,"  or  any  dock,  pier,  or  wharf  in  New  London  harbor 
within  two  hundred  feet  of  the  same,  or  any  wharf  on  either 
side  of  the  Mystic  river  between  Mystic  bridge  and  a  point 
two  hundred  yards  south  of  the  wharf  of  Joseph  S.  Avery, 
or  any  wharf,  pier  or  marine  railway  in  Norwalk  harbor, 
or  any  wharf  in  the  city  of  Middletown  when  covered  with 
water,  the  person  in  command  of  such  vessel  shall  forfeit  one 
hundred  dollars,  half  to  him  who  shall  i^rosccute  and  half  to 
the  treasury  of  the  county  in  which  the  oifence  is  committed, 
and  shall  also  be  liable  to  pay  three-fold  damages  to  him 
whose  property  shall  be  injured  thereby. 


II. 

Section  1.  The  person  in  charge  of  every  vessel  of  a  draft  Jf/t^^'d  to 'S  "* 
of  more  than  six  feet,  and  of  over  fifty  tons  burden,  carrying  walVen!'**' ^'°" 
cargoes  to  the  City  of  Hartford  from  any  port  or  place  be- 
yond the  mouth  of  Connecticut  river,  and  of  every  steamer 
engaged  in  towing  on  said  river,  shall  report  to  the  port 
warden  of  the  City  of  Hartford  within  twenty-four  hours 
after  every  arrival  at  said  city,  stating  the  name  and  regis- 
tered tonnage  of  the  same,  and  pay  to  him  for  every  vessel 
carrying  cargoes,  and  for  every  steamer  engaged  in  towing, 
a  toll  of  two  cents  a  ton  upon  its  registered  tonnage,  excej)t 
that  where  the  actual  weight  of  cargo  can  be  determined  by 


56 


CONNECTICUT   RIVER. 


Person  in  charge 
liable  for  tx)ll. 


its  bills  of  lading,  said  toll  shall  be  imposed  on  said  actual 
tonnage,  at  the  rate  of  one  cent  a  ton;  and  the  Hartford  and 
New  York  Steamboat  Company  shall,  on  the  first  day  of  June 
in  each  year,  pay  to  said  port  warden  one  thousand  dollars, 
in  lieu  of  all  tolls  imposed  by  this  section. 

Sec.  2.  The  person  in  charge  of  any  such  vessel,  and  the 
owner,  shall  be  jointly  and  severally  liable  for  such  toll ;  and 
if  the  person  in  charge  of  any  such  vessel  shall  neglect  so  to 
report,  and  to  pay  toll,  after  demand  by  said  port  warden,  he 
and  the  owner  of  such  vessel  shall  be  jointly  and  severally 
liable  to  pay  double  the  amount  of  toll  hereby  imposed,  to 
the  City  of  Hartford;  and  the  City  Court  of  said  city  shall 
have  jurisdiction  of  all  suits  instituted  for  the  recovery 
thereof. 
rre™anS^c-''*""^  S^c.  3.  Thc  port  wardcu  shall  keep  a  record  of  all  vessels, 
cuTtrlTa^surer^.  '^''  paying  Or  Hablc  to  pay  such  toll,  and  the  amount  of  toll  col- 
lected from  each,  and  render  an  account  monthly  to  the  treas- 
urer of  the  City  of  Hartford,  of  all  moneys  received  by  him 
for  toll,  and  pay  over  the  same  to  said  treasurer;  and  the 
Court  of  Common  Council  of  said  city  shall  cause  all  moneys 
so  received,  and  any  other  moneys  they  may  appropriate  for 
hn  Ifovhrchannei  ^^^  purposc,  cxccpt  as  hereinafter  provided,  to  be  expended 
for  the  improvement  of  the  navigation  of  Connecticut  river 
between  Hartford  and  Middletown,  under  the  direction  of  a 
committee  to  be  appointed  by  said  Court  of  Common  Council ; 
and  said  committee  shall,  from  time  to  time,  render  accounts 
with  vouchers  for  all  moneys  expended  by  them  to  said  treas-j 
urer,  which  shall  be  audited  and  adjusted  as  other  accounts 
of  said  city,  and  annually  report  to  the  General  Assembly,] 
stating  particularly  the  amount  of  money  received  from  tolls, 
and  expended  by  them,  the  purpose  for  which,  and  the  man-i 
ner  in  which,  the  same  was  expended,  and  the  condition  of  J 
the  channel  of  said  river  between  said  towns. 

Sec.  4.  Said  port  warden  shall  receive  such  compensation^ 
as  said  Court  of  Common  Council  may  prescribe,  not  exceed-) 
ing  two  hundred  dollars  a  year,  to  be  paid  from  said  tolls ; , 
and,  before  entering  upon  the  performance  of  said  duties,  he 
shall  give  a  bond  to  said  city  with  surety,  to  be  approved  by 


Annual  report. 


Compensation  of 
port  warden. 


CORONER.  5T 

the  mayor,  of  not  less  than  one  thousand  dollars,  conditioned 
for  the  faithful  performance  of  the  same. 

Sec.  5.     The  four  preceding  sections  shall  not  take  effect,  afrTOve°the"e"So^ 
until   accepted   and   approved   by   said   Court   of   Common  '^"""'^' 
Council. 


COEONEE. 


All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith,  including  ^^f^^^  coroner-s 
chapter  twenty -three  of  title  thirteen  of  the  general  statutes  '  '  '  ^  * 
(page  181),  and  j)art  one  of  chapter  two,  title  sixteen  of  said 
statutes  (page  205),  and  section  thirty-one  of  chapter  twelve, 
title  twenty  of  said  statutes  (page  529),  and  chapter  thirty- 
nine  of  the  public  acts  of  1882  (page  139),  and  the  provisions 
of  all  special  acts  giving  authority  to  hold  inquests  on  dead 
bodies,  or  perform  any  of  the  duties  assigned  to  coroners  and 
medical  examiners  by  this  act,  are  hereby  repealed. 

Approved,  May  1,  1883. 


I 


58 


COURTS. 


COUETS. 


I. 

Jurisdiction  of  City  and  Police 

XVI. 

Appointment  of   prosecuting 

Court. 

attorney,  and  his  powers  and 

II. 

Equity  jurisdiction  of  City  Court. 

duties. 

III. 

Recorder  may  grant  injunctions. 

XVII. 

Duties  of  clerks  of  courts. 

IV. 

Appeals  from  justices. 

XVIII. 

Fees  of  clerks  of  courts  in 

V. 

Limitation  of  criminal  jurisdic- 

civil causes. 

tion. 

XIX. 

Fees  to  clerks  for  copies. 

VI. 

Jurisdiction  extended  to  Charter 

XX. 

Forms  of  complaint. 

Oak  park. 

XXI. 

What  forms  of  complaint  suffi- 

VII. 

Jurisdiction  extended  to  Cedar 

cient. 

Hill  cemetery. 

XXII. 

Motions  in  error  and  for  new 

VIII. 

Jurisdiction  in  complaints  for  ob- 

trial in  City  Court:  recorder 

taining  goods  under  false  pre- 

may    appoint      substitute, 

tences. 

when  disqualified. 

IX. 

Office  of  associate  judge  of  City 

XXIII. 

Appeals  substituted  for  mo- 

Court abolished. 

tions  in  error  and  for  new 

X. 

Recorder  as  judge  of  Court  of 

trial. 

Common  Pleas. 

XXIV. 

Joinder  of  matters  of  law  and 

XI. 

Recorder  may  hold  special  term 

fact  in  writs  of  error. 

of  Court  of  Common  Pleas. 

XXV. 

Writs  of  error,  how  taken. 

XII. 

Appointment  of  judge  of  Police 

XXVI. 

Jurisdiction  of  Superior  Couit 

Court. 

on  appeals. 

XIII. 

Appointment  of  associate  judge  of 

XXVII. 

Transmission  of  copies  on  ap- 

Police Court. 

peal. 

XIV. 

Judge  of  Police  Court  may  desig- 

XXVIII. 

Bonds  on  adjournment. 

nate  substitute. 

XXIX. 

Support  of  prisoners. 

XV. 

Pay   of  substitute   judge   when 
holding    Court    of    Common 
Pleas. 

XXX. 

Fees  in  civil  actions. 

I. 

Jurisdiction  of  City      Thc  scvcral  city  and  police  courts,  and,  the  officers  thereof, 

and  Police  Courts.  J  X.  J  ' 

B.  s.,  p.  62,  §  18.  gjj^ij  have  all  the  powers  and  jurisdiction  which  shall  have 
been  conferred  upon  them,  and  shall  be  subject  to  all  the 
duties  imposed  uj)on  them  by  law  and  the  charters  of  their 
respective  cities;  and  appeals  from  the  judgments  of  said 
courts  shall  be  taken  and  allowed  in  the  manner  provided  by 
the  laws  in  force  on  the  thirty-first  day  of  December,  1874.^ 


Jurisdiction  of  City 
Court  in  equity. 
K.  S.,  1866,  p.  245, 
§137. 


II. 

The  City  Court  of  the  City  of  Hartford  shall  have  juris- 
diction of  all  suits  in  equity,  except  for  relief  against  any 
judgment  rendered,  or  against  any  cause  pending  in  the 
Superior  Court,  and  may  inquire  into  the  facts,  itself  or  by  a 


iCity  Court  has  jurisdiction  of  a  scire  facias  on  a  judgment  rendered  by  it  in  a 
suit  of  foreign  attachment.    Sherwood  v.  Stephenson,  25  Conn.,  431. 


COURTS.  59 

<  ommittcc,  and  may  proceed  to  final  judgment  and  decree,  See'!^*''"^  *'*'"" 
and  enforce  the  same  according  to  the  rules  of  equity,  pro- 
vided the  cause  of  action  or  proceeding  in  equity  originated  ^"^^°' 
and  one  or  both  of  the  parties  reside  within  the  limits  of  said  Residence  of  parties. 
city,  and  the  premises  in  question  in  cases  of  foreclosure  or 
the  proceedings  relating  to  real  estate  shall  be  situated  within  J;«^foa of  relics, 
said  city  limits. 

III. 

Any  judge  of  any  court  of  equity  may,  on  motion,  accord-  S^s^mtt,  §  i. 
ing  to  the  course  of  proceedings  in  equity,  grant  and  enforce 
writs  of  injunction,  in  all  actions  in  equity  returnable  to  any 
court,  when  such  court  is  not  actually  in  session,  whether  in 
term-time  or  vacation ;  which  writs  shall  be  of  force  until  the 
sitting  of  such  court,  and  its  further  order  thereon. 

IV. 

In  all  civil  actions,  except  those  of  summary  process,  ^^^^3**^  *°  justices- 
brought  before  a  justice  of  the  peace,  an  appeal  from  any  '  "^• 
judgment  rendered  therein,  upon  any  issue,  may  be  had  and 
allowed  to  either  party,  ta  the  next  Court  of  Common  Pleas 
in  the  county  in  which  such  judgment  is  rendered,  or  if  there 
be  no  such  court  in  said  county,  then  to  the  Superior  Court 
in  said  county,  unless  such  judgment  be  rendered  within  the 
judicial  district  of  Litchfield  county,  in  which  case  such  an 
appeal  shall  be  taken  to  the  next  District  Court  in  said  dis- 
trict; but  no  appeal  shall  be  allowed  until  the  party  appealing 
shall  become  bound  to  the  adverse  party,  in  such  sum  as  the 
justice  of  the  peace  shall  order,  in  a  recognizance,  with  a  suf- 
ficient surety,  conditioned  to  prosecute  such  appeal  to  effect.^ 

All  appeals  hereafter  made  from  justices  of  the  peace  in  yPeCwh^'Ttik'et. 
the  town  of  Hartford,  whether  the  cause  of  action  may  have 
arisen  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  or  without 
the  same,  shall  be  taken  to  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for 
the  county  of  Hartford. 

Approved,  July  9,  1869. 

iSee  PubUclActs,  1880,  p.  512. 


60  COURTS. 

Y. 


dSf^f^pour''-      No  justice  of  the  peace,  or  Police  or  City  Court,  shall  have 

Court.  .      T       . 

B.  s.,  p,  533,  §  8.  iinal  jurisdiction  of  any  prosecution  for  crime,  the  punishment 
for  which  may  be  imprisonment  in  the  state  prison. 

YI. 

fice'ctft'o'ler  ^°'       SECTION  1.     The  PoHce  Court  of  the  City  of  Hartford  shall 

Charter  Oak  park,      ^  '        •     j'     >•  n-  /v>  i-i 

s.  A.,  vol.  7,  p.  939.  nave  jurisdiction  over  all  crimes,  oiiences  and  misdemeanors, 
that  shall  be  committed  in  that  part  of  the  town  of  West 
Hartford,  in  the  county  of  Hartford,  known  as  Charter  Oak 
park,  in  the  same  manner  as  said  court  now  has  over  crimes, 
offences  and  misdemeanors  that  are  committed  within  the 
limits  of  the  City  of  Hartford. 

ov^SV/rr"""  Sec.  2.  The  officers  and  members  of  the  police  department 
of  the  City  of  Hartford,  shall  have  the  same  authority  and 
power  to  arrest  any  person  or  persons,  on  said  premises 
known  as  Charter  Oak  park,  that  they  now  have  to  make 
arrests  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  and  all 
persons   so   arrested   by  them,  shall   be  brought  forthwith 

•  before  the  Hartford  City  Police  Court,  which  court  shall 

thereupon  proceed  to  trial  and  judgment,  as  in  all  other 
similar  cases  now  within  its  jurisdiction. 

feToTUuces        Sec.  3.     Nothing  in  this  act  contained  shall  affect  the  juris- 

Of  West  Hartford.        ,.,.  „.,.  ^,,  .  .,  „   __^  '-r 

diction  01  justices  of  the  peace,  m  said  town  of  West  Har 
ford,  in  any  complaint  that  may  be  brought  before  them. 

Sec.  4.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved,  July  8,  1875. 

YII. 

HillTeS';.^'^'''      Section   1.     The   mayor   of  the   City   of  Hartford   mayj 

from  time  to  time,  appoint  one  or  more  suitable  persons,  t( 

be  designated  by  the  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery  Association,  to  be' 
and  act  as  policemen,  upon  the  grounds  and  at  the  expense 
of  said  association.  Such  policemen  shall  hold  office  during 
the  pleasure  of  the  mayor.  They  shall  wear  in  plain  sight  a 
suitable  shield,  marked  "Cemetery  Police;  "  shall  enforce  the 
rules  of  the  association,  and  may  arrest  any  persons  violating. 


COURTS.  61 

or  who  shall  have  violated,  said  rules ;  and  they  shall  have 
within  said  grounds  the  power  of  the  police  of  the  City  of 
Hartford. 

Sec.  2.     Eesistance  to  such  policemen  shall  be  punished  in  Socmen! "''"" 
the  same  manner  and  to  the  extent  as  is  now  provided  by 
law  for  resistance  to  constables. 

Sec.  3.     The  Police  Court  of  the  City  of  Hartford  shall  Son^""^' ^""" 
have  jurisdiction  of  all  crimes  committed  upon  the  grounds 
of  said  association,  and  the  breach  of  the  reasonable  rules 
and  regulations  of  said  association  shall  be  held  to  be  a  breach 
of  the  public  peace. 

Approved,  March  11,  1879. 


YIII. 

Section  1.     When  any  complaint  shall  be  brought  before  uu^eSe'^X' 

"i-vi.  /~i' ,        /-A  1     r»         ii  ••  r>  jY»  tences ;  jurisdiction 

liny  Police  or  City  Court  lor  the  commission  oi  any  oirence  or  Poiice  court. 

•^  "^  ''  p.  A.,  1876,  p.  107. 

prohibited  by  section  twelve,  chapter  eleven,  title  twenty,  of 
the  general  statutes,  such  court  may  try  the  same,  and  if  in 
the  opinion  of  such  court  no  greater  punishment  ought  to  be 
imposed,  such  court  may  render  judgment  therein  for  a  fine 
of  not  more  than  fifty  dollars,  or  imprisonment  in  a  county 
jail  for  not  more  than  six  months,  or  both,  and  grant  a  war- 
rant for  the  execution  of  the  same,  but  if  in  the  opinion  of 
such  court,  such  offence  requires  a  greater  punishment,  the 
accused  shall  be  bound  to  the  next  Superior  Court,  having 
criminal  jurisdiction,  to  be  holden  in  the  county  in  which  the 
offence  is  committed,  and  any  person  convicted  by  said  court, 
shall  have  a  right  of  appeal,  in  the  manner  now  provided  by 
law. 

Sec.  2.     All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith  are  Repeal, 
hereby  repealed. 

Ajiproved,  June  22,  1876. 

IX. 

That  so  much  of  the  charter  of  said  City  of  Hartford  as  P^g^e^of  cuTcoun 
provides  that  there  shall  be  two  associate  judges  of  the  City  s^A.fvoi'.  i,  p.  276. 
Court  of  said  city,  and  for  the  manner  of  their  election,  be 


62  COURTS. 

and  the  same  is  hereby  repealed,  and  the  office  of  associate 
judge  of  said  City  Court  shall  be  abolished  from  and  after  the 
first  Monday  of  April,  A.  D.  1873. 
Approved,  June  26,  1872. 


Commou  Pleas. 


fudge  o7"oKf''      When  any  judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  shall  be 

lou  Pleas.  J ,  T  /•      1  11 

p.  39,  §  18.  disqualmed  or  unable  to  act  m  any  cause  or  matter  pending 
before  him  or  said  court,  which  he  may  consider  as  improper 
to  be  tried  or  disposed  of  by  him  or  by  said  court  when  held 
by  him,  he,  or  in  his  absence,  the  clerk  thereof,  may  call  in 
any  other  judge  of  said  court,  or  the  judge  of  the  District 
Court  of  Litchfield  county,  or  any  judge,  assistant  judge,  or 
recorder  of  any  City  Court  in  the  county  where  such  Court 
of  Common  Pleas  is  held,  to  hear  and  determine  such  cause ; 
and  the  judge  of  the  District  Court  may,  for  the  same  reason 
and  purpose  call  in  any  judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas, 
or  the  judge  of  the  City  Court  of  the  city  of  Waterbury. 

XI. 


corri1/co"imou  ^^^  pcrsou  who  is  ex-officio  authorized  to  hold  a  session  of 
p!T;i875,p.22,§4  the  Court  of  Common  pleas  in  any  county  in  the  absence  of 
the  judge  of  such  court,  may  hold  a  special  term  or  session 
thereof  at  the  request  of  the  judge  during  the  session  of  the 
regular  term,  and  at  such  special  sessions  the  person  holding 
the  same  shall  have  all  the  powers  of  the  judge  of  said  court^ 
and  said  court  when  so  constituted  and  held  shall  be  deemec 
the  same  as  if  such  person  were  holding  the  regular  ter 
thereof  in  the  absence  of  the  judge. 

XII. 

poHce'c^urt  ud  e       Section  1.     That  the  Legislature  shall  annually  appoint  al 
prrisn^prs-il?-  j^^^g^  ^^  ^^^  VoMqq  Court  for  the  City  of  Hartford,  to  con-j 

tinue  in  office  for  one  year,^  and  until  his  successor  shall  b( 

appointed  and  sworn. 

iTerm  changed  to  two  years.    See  Constitutional  Amendment,  Article  XX,  p.  36.^ 
Term  commences  July  1.    See  P.  A.,  1876,  p.  87. 


COURTS.  63 

Sec.  2.     That  so  much  of  the  charter  of  the  City  of  Hart-  ^^^''^^ 
ford  as  provides  for  the  election  of  the  judge  of  the  Police 
Court  for  said  city,  by  the  Common  Council  thereof,  be  and 
the  same  is  hereby  repealed. 

Sec  3.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  the  ^ay  of  its '^^''^  ^ff-'- -"-• 
passage. 

Approved,  June  6,  1871. 

XIII. 

Section  1.     The  General  Assembly  shall  annually  choose  As^^datejudge^of 
an  associate  I'udere  of  the  Police  Court  of  said  city,  who  shall  ^^**^'^''' *"•* '^™  *• 

•^         °  *'  '  S.  A.,  1872,  p.  300. 

hold  his  office  for  the  term  of  one  year^  frOm  the  fourth  day 
of  July  of  the  year  of  his  appointment  and  until  his  suc- 
cessor shall  be  chosen  and  sworn. 

Sec.  2.     The  associate  judge  shall  perform  the  duties  and  »""^' '^°"*  p"^^"- 
be  vested  with  all  the  powers  and  functions  of  the  judge  of 
said  court  whenever  there  shall  be  a  vacancy  in  the  office  of 
said  judge  and  in  Case  of  his  absence  or  disability. 

Sec  3.     The  associate  judge  shall  be  paid  for  actual  service  compensation. 
at  the  same  rate  as  the  judge  of  said  court. 

Sec  4.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved,  August  1,  1872. 

XIV. 

That  in  case  the  judp*e  of  the  Police  Court  of  the  City  of  foiice  judge  may 

*'         *-'  "^  designate  substi- 

Hartford  shall  at  any  time  be  disqualified  or  unable  to  act  in  s!a'.,voi.5,  p.  368. 
any  cause,  or  in  any  case  that  the  duties  of  the  office  shall  be 
too  great  for  him  reasonably  to  perform,  he  may  designate 
and  request  any  justice  of  the  peace  resident  within  the  City 
of  Hartford,  to  act  as  his  substitute,  and  such  justice  while 
acting  under  such  request  shall  have  the  same  powers  as 
such  judge  would  have  in  like  causes. 
Approved,  June  20,  1860. 

1  Term  changed  to  two  years.   See  Constitutional  Amendment,  Article  XX,  p.  35.  . 


64  COURTS. 

XV. 

fuYge'Voidfngcourt      Section  1.     The  judges  of  City  Courts  and  Police  Courts, 
p.ATiBTslp.m    when  holding  Courts  of  Common  Pleas,  shall  be  paid  eight 

dollars  a  day,  to  be  taxed  and  paid  as  now  provided  by  law. 
^''p^"^  Sec.  2.     All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith  are 

hereby  repealed. 

Approved,  March  27,  1878. 

XYI. 

Prosecuting  attor-        Section  1.     Thc  Court  of  Commou  Council  of  the  City  of 

ney  ;  powers  and  J 

s"a^!  vol.  7,  p.  917.  Hartford,  shall  appoint  a  prosecuting  attorney  who  shall 
have  all  the  powers  of  a  grand  juror  in  presenting  and  pros- 
ecuting complaints  and  informations  before  the  Police  Court 
of  said  city ;  and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  prosecute  before  said 
court,  all  crimes  and  misdemeanors,  and  violations  of  city 
ordinances,  committed  within  the  limits  of  said  city,  and  of 
which  said  court  has  jurisdiction;  he  shall  be  duly  sworn  to 
the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duty,  and  shall  receive  such  com- 
j)ensation  as  the  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  by  ordinance 
direct. 

wTceIsf!"*°*  ^^^-  ^-  'A.fter  said  prosecuting  attorney  shall  be  appointed 
and  qualified,  the  powers  of  grand  jurors  of  the  town  of 
Hartford  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  shall, 
after  the  first  Monday  of  October,  A.  D.  1875,  cease. 

fftorne  p™'^''"""^  Sec.  3.  Whencver  said.prosecuting  attorney  shall  be  absent 
from  the  City  of  Hartford,  or  unable  or  disqualified  to  act  in 
any  case  before  said  Police  Court,  said  court  shall  appoint  a 
special  attorney  to  act  during  such  absence,  disability  or  dis- 
qualification, who  shall  receive  for  his  services  the  same  fees 
provided  by  law  for  grand  jurors,  for  like  services. 

How  appointed.  Sec.  4.     The  prosccuting  attorney  first  appointed  under 

the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  be  chosen  in  joint  convention 
of  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  at  a  meeting  specially 
warned  for  that  purpose,  and  he  shall  hold  his  ofiice  until  thell 
second  Monday  after  the  next  annual  city  election,  and  until 
his  successor  shall  be  chosen  and  qualified;  and  thereafter 
said  prosecuting  attorney  shall  be  chosen  in  joint  convention 


i 


COURTS.  65 

of  said  Court  of  Common  Council,  at  the  same  time  and  in 
the  same  manner  as  is  provided  in  the  ordinances  of  said  city, 
for  the  election  of  such  other  officers  as  are  to  be  chosen  in 
joint  convention  of  said  Court  of  Common  Council,  and  said 
prosecuting  attorney  shall  hold  his  office  for  the  term  of  one  Temof  omoe. 
year,  and  until  his  successor  shall  be  chosen  and  qualified. 

Sec.  5.     The  same  fees  shall  be  taxed  by  said  Police.  Court  ^°''* 
for  the  services  of  said  prosecuting  attorney  as  are  by  law 
taxable  for  the  services  of  grand  jurors;  and  the  same  when 
collected  by  the  clerk  of  said  court,  shall  be  by  him  paid  or 
accounted  for  to  the  treasurer  of  the  City  of  Hartford. 

Sec.  6.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its  passage.  "^^^^ '« ^^^^  ^^^^^ 

Approved,  June  24,  1875. 

XYII. 

Section  1.  Clerks  of  courts  shall  receive  the  files,  pro-  g;'^'f'p°^4',''f]i'Lu. 
cesses,  and  documents,  returnable  to  their  respective  courts, 
make  perfect  records  of  all  proceedings  required  to  be  re- 
corded, have  the  custody  of  the  files  and  records  of  the  court, 
make  and  keep  dockets  of  causes  therein,  issue  executions  on 
judgments,  and  perform  all  other  duties  imposed  on  them  by 
law. 

Sec.  2.     The  clerk  of  any  court  may,  when  so  directed  by  cierks  to  complete 

t/  «/  ^  "^    records. 

such  court,  make  up,  amend  and  complete  any  record  thereof 
which  may  have  been  omitted  to  be  done  by  a  former  clerk, 
in  such  manner  as  the  court  may  direct. 

Sec.  3.*     The  clerk   of  the   court  before   which   any  civil  cierks  may  take 

•^  l)on'ls  in  vacatioUi 

action  is  pending  may,  in  vacation,  take  bonds  for  its  prose- 
cution. 

Sec.  4.     Each  court  having  a  clerk  shall  have  its  proper  cmj'**  *«  ^ave  a 
seal,  which  shall  be  kept  by  him. 

XVIII. 


Section  1.     Clerks  of  courts,  other  than  Probate  Courts,  Fees  of  cierks  of 

'  '  courts. 

shall  receive  for  entering  each  civil  cause  three  dollars;  for  ^- '*^' ^^^^' »'• '^ 
recording  each  judgment  in  causes  brought  by  appeal  from 
justices  of  the  peace,  and  for  recording  each  judgment  on 


66 


COURTS. 


Continuance  fee 
abolished. 


default  or  non-suit  where  such  judgment  is  rendered  at  the 
first  term,  three  dollars;  for  recording  each  judgment  in 
complaints  for  divorce,  on  default  or  non-suit  at  the  second 
term,  and  in  all  actions  where  damages  less  than  two  hun- 
dred dollars  are  recovered,  seven  dollars:  for  recording 
judgments  in  all  other  cases,  ten  dollars. 

Sec.  2.  The  fees  provided  by  section  one  of  this  act  may 
be  demanded  by  the  clerk  before  the  cause  is  entered,  or  the 
judgment  is  recorded.  Clerks  of  courts  shall  not  demand, 
charge,  or  collect  any  fees  for  any  entry  of  any  cause  subse- 
quent to  the  first  term,  nor  for  any  continuance  of  any  cause. 
Whenever,  in  any  cause  now  pending  in  any  court,  the  clerk 
thereof  has  collected  entry  fees  equal  to  those  chargeable 
by  the  provisions  of  this  act,  he  shall  not  charge  or  demand 
any  additional  fees  for  the  continuance  or  further  entry  of 
such  cause  upon  the  docket,  and  whenever  in  any  cause  now 
pending  he  has  collected  entry  fees  equal  to  those  chargeable 
by  the  provisions  of  this  act  for  the  entry  of  the  same,  and 
the  recording  of  the  judgment  in  the  same,  he  shall  not 
charge  or  demand  any  fee  for  the  record  of  the  judgment 
when  the  same  is  obtained.  All  fees  collected  for  the  entry 
of  causes  now  pending,  under  the  provisions  of  statutes 
repealed  by  this  act,  shall  be  credited  by  the  clerks  of  courts 
to  the  parties  who  have  paid  the  same,  against  any  additional 
fee  such  clerks  may  be  entitled  to  demand  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act  for  the  further  entry  of  such  causes,  or  for 
the  recording  of  the  judgments  rendered  in  the  same. 

Sec.  3.  The  prevailing  jiarty  in  any  civil  action  may 
recover  for  the  judgment  file  the  sum  of  one  dollar,  and  the 
further  sum  of  seventy-five  cents  for  each  additional  page, 
when  such  judgment  file  exceeds  one  page ;  and  the  clerks  of 
courts  who  draw  such  judgment  files  may  demand  and 
receive  such  fees  from  the  prevailing  party. 
Pees  due  to  be  paid       Qec.  4.     !N"o  clcrk  shall  be  required  to  continue  any  cause 

before  entry  of  -'-  '' 

further  proceedings.  ^^  ^^^  dockct,  or  to  cutcr  or  rccord  any  judgment  therein,  or 
to  issue  any  execution  on  any  such  judgment  until  all  court 
and  clerk  fees  already  due  shall  have  been  paid. 

SltuS's,  ?.?7r'        ^^^'  ^'     '^^®  provisions  of  chapter  seven,  title  thirteen,  of 


Judgment  file. 


charter  or  ordi- 

uance. 

S.  A.,  vol.6,  p. 313. 


C0UKT8.  67 

the  general  statutes,  providing  for  fees  on  continuances,  and 
judgments  on  trials,  defaults,  and  non-suits,  and  all  acts  and 
parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith  are  hereby  repealed. 
Approved,  April  14,  1881. 

XIX. 

Clerks  of  city  and  police  courts,  in  addition  to  their  salary,  ^^l.fp^iX'^"- 
may  receive  the  same  fees  for  copies  upon  appeals  or  binding 
over,  as  justices  of  the  peace. 

XX. 

Section  1.     Whenever  any  complaint  shall  be  brought  to  complaint  for 

t/  X  C3  otfuuce  against 

the  City  Police  Court  of  the  City  of  Hartford  by  the  city  tnc^ 
attorney  under  authority  of  the  charter  of  said  city  for  any 
act  made  an  offence  by  said  charter  and  the  amendments 
thereto,  or  by  the  ordinances  of  said  city  passed  in  pursuance 
thereof,  and  cognizable  by  said  court,  a  form  substantially 

I  ike  the  following  form  may  be  used  and  shall  be  sufficient : 
To  the  honorable  City  Police  Court  for  the  City  of  Hart-  Form  lor  criminal 
•'  •'  process. 

ford  comes  A.  B.  city  attorney  of  said  city,  and  on  his  oath 
of  office  complaint  and  information  makes,  that  since  the 
incorporation  of  said  city,  to  wit,  on  the  day 

of  A.  D.  18       and  within  the  limits  of  said 

city,  of  the  town  of 

in  the  county  of  with  force  and  arms,  [set 

forth  the  act  complained  of,]  against  the  peace,  contrary  to 
the  ordinance  [or  order  as  the  case  may  be]  of  said  city  in 
such  case  provided,  and  contrary  to  the  form  of  the  statute 
in  such  case  provided,  therefore  the  said  city  attorney  prays 
process,  and  that  the  said  may  be  arrested,  held 

to   answer   to   this   complaint,  and   be   thereon   dealt  with 
according  to  law. 
Dated  at  said  Hartford,  this  day  of  A.  D.  18 

A.  B.,  City  Attorney. 

Sec.  2.    Whenever  there  shall  be  brought  to  the  City  Court 
of  the  City  of  Hartford,  any  action  of  debt,  in  the  name  of 


68  COURTS. 

forfeTtSe".°^^°'°'' said  city,  to  collect  any  fine,  penalty,  or  forfeiture  due  and 
payable  under  the  authority  and  by  virtue  of  the  charter  and 
ordinances  of  said  city  and  collectible  by  action  of  debt  in 
said  court,  a  form  substantially  like  the  following  form  may 
be  used  and  shall  be  sufficient: 

To  the  Marshal  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  etc.: 
Form  for  civil  pro-       ^y  authorlty  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  you  are  hereby] 
commanded  to  summon  A.  B.  of  to  appear  before' 

the  City  Court  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  within  said  county, 
next  to  be  holden  at  the  city  hall  in  said  city,  on  the  first 
Monday  of  A.  D.  18      then  and  there  to  answer 

unto  the  City  of  Hartford  in  a  plea  that  to  the  plaintiff  the 
defendant  render  the  sum  of  which  to  plaintiff 

the  defendant  owes  and  from  them  unjustly  detains,  where- 
upon the  plaintiff  declares  and  says:  that  heretofore,  to  wit, 
on  the  day  of  A.  D.  18      the  said  A.  B.. 

[state  the  act  or  negligence  which  subjects  the  defendant  to 
the  fine,  penalty,  or  forfeiture  to  be  collected,]  all  which 
was  contrary  to  the  ordinance  of  said  city,  entitled  [give  the 
title  to  the  ordinance  imposing  the  fine,  penalty,  or  forfeit- 
ure]. And  the  said  defendant  there  became  and  still  is  liable 
to  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  plaintiff  for  the  use  of  the  city 
treasurer  the  sum  of  recoverable  in  an  action  of 

debt  on  said  ordinance,  whereby  an  action  hath  accrued  to 
the  plaintiff  to  demand  and  recover  of  the  defendant  the  sum 
of  which  to  the  plaintiff  the  defendant  hath  never 

paid  though  often  requested  so  to  do.  All  which  is  to  the 
damage  of  the  plaintiff  in  the  sum  of  and  therefore 

they  bring  their  suit. 

Hereof  fail  not,  but  due  service  and  return  make. 

C  D,  of  said  Hartford,  is  recognized  in  the  sum  of 
to  prosecute,  etc. 

Dated  at  Hartford,  this  day  of  A.  D.  18 

taSated  ""'  Sec.  3.     Nothing  in  this  resolution  shall  be  construed  as' 

prohibiting  the  use  of  other  forms  in  reference  to  the  same 
matters,  or  as  invalidating  any^other  forms.     This  resolution 


COURTS.  69 

shall  go  into  effect  from  and  after  the  date  of  its  passage,  but  Take  effect  when. 
shall  not  aifect  any  suit  now  pending. 
Approved,  July  12,  1867. 


XXI. 

In  all  complaints  or  other  processes  for  an  offence  against  complaints  tor 

X  J-  c3  offences  under  pri- 

a  private  act,  or  an  ordinance,  or  by-law  of  any  town,  city,  laws^"^^' ""  ^^' 
or  borough,  it  shall  be  sufficient  to  set  forth  the  offence  in  the 
same  manner  as  in  case  of  offences  created  by  a  public  act. 


XXII. 

Section  1.     The  City  Court  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  and  Motions  in  error  and 

•^  "^  'for  new  trial  lu  City 

the  judge  thereof,  shall  have  the   same  powers   to   grant  sT'/voi.  7,  p.  see. 
motions  in  error  and  for  new  trials,  and  grant  bills  of  excep- 
tions in  all  cases  hereafter  arising  therein  and  now  pending, 
with  all  the  rights  and  powers  incident  thereto,  as  is  now 
given  by  law  to  the  Superior  Court  and  the  judges  thereof  in 

^imilar  cases. 

^  Sec.  2.  Said  City  Court  may  reserve  questions  of  law  J^j^^y  cour^t^ia^^^ 
arising  therein,  and  in  cases  now  pending,  for  the  advice  of  ^''^' 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Errors  at  its  next  regular  term  in  the 
first  judicial  district,  in  the  same  manner  as  now  provided  by 
law  in  the  Superior  Court,  and  said  City  Court  shall  conform 
to  the  advice  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  the  judgment,  decree, 
or  decision  made  or  rendered  in  such  cases. 

Sec.  3.     Motions  in  error,  and  for  a  new  trial,  in  said  City  Motions  iu  error  and 

'  '  •'for  new  trial  may  be 

Court  may  be  joined  and  allowed  at  the  same  time,  as  is  now  ^*''°®^" 
provided  in  the  Superior  Court;  and  all  motions  in  error  or 
for  a  new  trial  heretofore  granted  by  said  court,  or  now 
pending  therein,  or  which  shall  hereafter  be  granted,  shall  be 
taken  to  the  next  regular  term  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  to  what  court 

°  -»•  taken. 

Errors  in  said  district :  frovided^  that  the  Superior  Court  shall 
try  and  decide  all  actions  brought  from  said  City  Court  and 
now  entered  upon  the  docket  of  the  Superior  Court. 

Sec.  4.     Whenever,  by  reason  of  sickness,  interest,  disquali-  fi" cl'"''*"'''"  *** 
fication,  absence,  or  from  any  other  cause,  the  recorder  of 
said  City  Court  shall  be  rendered  unable  or  disqualified  to  act 


70  COURTS. 

as  judge  therein,  said  recorder  may  designate  some  one 
justice  of  the  peace  resident  within  the  City  of  Hartford  to 
act  as  judge  thereof,  and  such  justice  of  the  peace,  so 
appointed  and  entered  upon  the  record,  shall,  for  the  time  of 
such  disqualification,  sickness,  interest,  absence,  or  other 
cause,  have  all  the  powers  vested  in  the  recorder  of  said  court 
by  law,  except  in  case  of  a  vacancy  in  said  office. 

To  be  a  public  act.       Sec.  5.     TMs  shall  be  deemed  a  public  act,  and  all  acts  and 
parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith  are  hereby  repealed. 

When  to  take  effect.      gj;c.  6.     TMs   act   shall  take   eifect  from   the  day  of  its 
passage. 

Approved,  July  24,  1874. 

XXIII. 

pT^i882  144  ^^^  questions  of  law  arising  on  the  trial  of  any  cause  or 
action,  civil  or  criminal,  before  the  Superior  Court  or  any 
inferior  court,  which  may  now  by  law  be  carried  to  the 
Superior  Court  or  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  Errors  for  revis- 
ion, by  motion  for  a  new  trial  either  for  errors  of  a  judge  or 
for  verdict  against  evidence  or  for  any  other  cause  whatever, 
or  by  motion  in  error,  shall  hereafter  be  removed  to  such 
higher  court  by  an  appeal  from  the  judgment  of  the  court 
where  such  cause  or  action  was  tried,  and  no  motions  for  new 
trials  or  motions  in  error  shall  hereafter  be  allowed;  but  this 
act  shall  not  affect  writs  of  error  or  petitions  for  new  trials. 
Approved,  March  29,  1882. 

XXIY. 


Joinder  of  mutters       Mattcrs  of  fact  aud  matters  of  law  may  be  joined  in  any 

ot  law  aud  of  fact  J  >)  J 

P.  r^isK^s.     writ  of  error  which  is  returnable  to  a  court  having  jurisdic 


tion  of  both  error  of  fact  and  law. 
Approved,  March  1,  1881. 

XXY. 


I 


Writs  of  error,  how      Section  1.     WHts  of  crrors  from  matters  of  fact,  or  in 

brought. 

P.  A.,  1882,  p.  214.   which  matters  of  fact  and  matters  of  law  shall  be  joined  in 
the  same  writ,  may  be  brought  to  the  Superior  Court  from 


COURTS.  71 

the  judgments  or  decrees  of  the  Superior  Court,  Court  of 
Common  Pleas,  District  Court,  or  any  city  court  of  the 
county  in  which  said  courts  are  situated. 

Sec.  2.  Writs  of  error  for  matters  of  law  only  may  be 
brought  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  Errors  of  any  judicial  dis- 
trict or  county  from  the  judgment  and  decrees  of  any  city 
court  in  such  judicial  district  or  county. 

Sec.  3.  All  a^^ts  inconsistent  with  this  act  are  hereby 
repealed. 

Approved,  April  26,  1882. 

XXYI. 

The   Superior   Court   shall   have   sole    iurisdiction   of  all  Jurisdiction  of 

-•■  "  Superior  Court  in 

appeals  from  the  police  and  city  courts  in  cities,  and  from  K'^'p.  536,  §  i. 
justices  of  the  peace,  and  of  all  offences  except  such  as  are  by 
law  within  the  sole  jurisdiction  of  said  police  or  city  courts, 
or  justices  of  the  j)eace;  and  in  all  prosecutions  for  the  vio- 
lation of  the  provisions  of  any  charter,  or  ordinance  or  by-law 
of  a  city  or  borough,  the  defendant  shall  have  a  right  of 
appeal  as  in  other  cases. 

XXYII. 

When  any  police  or  city  court,  or  justice  of  the  peace,  Appeals  to  be  tr»ns- 

•^      -•■  "^  J  .J  X  7  milted  within  ten 

shall  bind  over  or  hold  for  trial,  before  the  Superior  Court,  S,  p.  535,  §  12. 

au}^  person  charged  with  au}^  criminal  offence;  or  when  such 

court  or  justice  shall  not  find  probable  cause  to  so  bind  him 

over  or  hold  him  for  trial ;  or  when  an  appeal  shall  be  taken 

to  the  Superior  Court  from  any  judgment  of  a  i3olice  or  city 

court,  or  justice  of  the  peace,  such  court  or  justice  shall, 

within  ten   days  thereafter,  transmit  to  the  clerk  of  such 

Superior  Court,  or  to  the  State's  attorney  for  the  county 

where  such  prosecution  shall  have  been  had,  copies  of  the 

files  and  record  in  such  cause,  with  the  particulars  of  the 

costs  therein ;  and  shall  enter  uj^on  the  same  the  names  of  all 

persons  who  testified  on  the  trial  of  such  cause,  with  their 

places  of  residence,  so  far  as  known  to  him,   designating 

therein  the  witnesses  offered  on  behalf  of  the  prosecution, 


72  COURTS. 

and  those  for  the  defence ;  and  no  costs  shall  be  taxed  or  paid 
to  any  police  or  city  court,  or  justice  of  the  peace,  failing  to 
comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  section. 

XXYIII. 

dcefpK^or"cify  Upou  thc  adjoumment  of  the  hearing  of  any  criminal 
R?s'.,'p.534f§)i.  cause  by  any  justice  of  the  i^eace,  or  police  or  city  court,  the 
accused  shall  be  required  to  enter  into  a  recognizance  in  a 
jiroper  sum,  with  surety,  conditioned  that  he  shall  appear  at 
the  time  to  which  said  hearing  shall  be  adjourned,  and  abide 
the  order  of  the  court.  If  the  cause  is  or  may  be  within  the 
final  jurisdiction  of  the  court,  said  recognizance  shall  be 
taken  to  the  town  wherein  said  hearing  is  had,  if  said  cause 
is  pending  before  a  justice  of  the  peace ;  and  to  the  city 
wherein  such  police  or  city  court  is  holden,  if  said  cause  is 
pending  before  such  court,  and  is,  or  may  be,  within  the  final 
jurisdiction  of  said  court;  but,  if  said  cause  is  not  within  the 
final  jurisdiction  of  the  court  before  which  the  same  is  pend- 
ing, said  recognizance  shall  be  taken  to  the  State. 

XXIX. 


Prisoners  in  jail  by      All  persous  scntcnced  to  any  term  of  imprisonment  by  the 

sentence  of  Police  ■'■  »j  y  %i 

K1H66,  p.  6.15,  Police  Court  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  to  the  common  jail  of 
the  county  of  Hartford,  shall  be  delivered  to  the  keeper 
thereof  by  any  proper  ofiicer  of  said  court,  and  said  keeper 
shall  receive  and  imprison  such  persons,  and  employ  them 
according  to  the  rules,  regulations,  and  discipline  of  said  jail, 
during  the  term  for  which  they  shall  be  severally  sentenced 
and  committed,  or  until  they  are   discharged  according  to 

how  defraied'*'"'"^'  ^^^ t  ^^^  the  cost  of  maintaining  said  persons  so  committed 
to  said  jail  shall  be  defrayed  in  the  same  manner  as  that  of 
persons  committed  to  said  jail  by  sentence  of  the  Superior 
Court,  or  of  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  said  county. 


DYKE.  73 

XXX. 

Section  1.     No  attorney  fees,  or  teen  for  travel  to  or  at-  fraveTand"^uend. 

-  ance  aboltshettr 

tendance  at   court,   shall    hereafter  be   allowed   as   costs   to  p.  a.,  imi,  p.  m. 
parties  in  civil  actions. 

Sec.  2.  There  may  be  allowed  to  the  prevailing  party  in 
an}^  civil  action  in  the  Superior  Court,  Court  of  Common 
Pleas,  District  Court,  or  City  Court,  by  way  of  indemnity, 
the  following  sums:  for  all  proceedings  before  trial,  ten  dol-  c^sf »" pities. 
lars;  for  the  trial  of  an  issue  of  law  or  fact,  fifteen  dollars; 
and  if  more  than  one  issue  of  fact  shall  be  tried  at  one  time, 
only  one  trial  fee  shall  be  allowed.         ^        ^        :^ 

Sec.  5.  Nothing  in  this  act  contained  shall  be  construed 
to  interfere  with  the  discretion  of  the  court,  in  taxing  costs 
in  equity. 

Sec.  6.     So  much  of  chapter  thirteen,  of  title  thirteen  of  ""p^*^- 
the  general  statutes  (pages  177,  178),  as  relates  to  fees  for 
travel  and  attendance  of  parties  in  civil  actions,  and  attorney 
fees,  is  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  7.  Section  fourteen,  title  nineteen,  chapter  five  (page 
418),  of  the  general  statutes  is  hereby  amended  by  striking 
out,  in  the  eleventh  line  thereof,  the  words  "  except  for  travel 
and  attendance." 

Sec.  8.  No  provisions  in  the  statutes  or  rules  of  court  for 
the  taxation  of  costs,  other  than  those  specified  in  the  two 
next  preceding  sections  of  this  act,  are  repealed  or  annulled 
by  this  act. 

Sec.  9.     This  act  shall  not  aftect  any  suit  now  pending. 

Approved,  April  12,  1881. 


DYKE. 

Section  L     The  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  co^on  counci| 
Hartford  shall  have  the  exclusive  power  to  lay  out,  make,  s"  a!^  voi.  s,  p.  717. 
and  establish  within  the  limits  of  said  city,  any  dyke  neces- 


74 


ELECTORS   AND    ELECTIONS. 


How  proceeded 
with. 


sary  to  prevent  the  water  of  the  Connecticut,  or  Mill  river, 
from  inundating  or  overflowing  said  city,  or  any  part  thereof, 
which  shall  be  considered  and  treated  as  a  public  work  of 
said  city.  ' 

Sec.  2.  The  powers  conferred,  and  the  duties  imposed  in 
said  Court  of  Common  Council,  by  the  provisions  of  the 
seventh  and  eighth  sections  of  the  act  to  w^hich  this  is  an 
addition  (approved  June  24,  1859),  are  hereby  extended  to 
the  work  described  in  the  preceding  section,  and  the  laying 
out  and  establishing  the  locality  of  said  dyke,  the  building  or 
making  thereof,  the  taking  of  land  or  other  private  property 
for  the  ^ame,  the  appraisal  thereof  and  comj)ensation  therefor, 
the  notice  to  persons  interested  therein,  the  assessment  of  a 
proportional  sum  of  the  expenses  incident  to  the  completion 
of  said  work  upon  any  person  specially  benefited  thereby, 
and  the  collection  thereof,  the  appeal  by  the  persons  aggrieved, 
and  the  proceedings  thereon,  and  the  laying  of  taxes  to  defray 
the  necessary  expenses  of  said  dyke,  shall  be  regulated  by  the 
provisions  of  said  seventh  and  eighth  sections  in  the  same 
manner,  and  to  the  same  extent,  as  if  the  provisions  of  the 
first  section  of  this  act  were  incorporated  in  and  made  a  part 
of  said  seventh  and  eighth  sections. 

Approved,  July  7,  1865. 


ELECTOES  AND  ELECTIONS. 


I.  II.    Conduct  of  city  meetings.  IV. 

III.    Preparation  of  voting  list  for  city      V. 
meetings. 


Contested  elections. 
Warning  of  city  meetings. 


I. 


Conduct  of  city 

meetings. 

R.  S.,  i>.  Hi,  §  10. 


Town  and  city  meetings  for  the  election  of  ofiicers  shall  b( 
holden  and  proceeded  with,  so  far  as  may  be,  in  the  sam< 
manner  as  electors'  meetings,  unless  when  it  is  otherwise 
provided.         ^        ^        ^        ii:        ^ 


ELECTORS   AND    ELECTIONS.  75 

II. 

vSeciion  24.  The  registrars  of  voters  in  the  several  towns,  ^^^^^^Uni^^^' 
and  in  towns  whore  there  are  different  registrars  for  different  lH^s,  26  fe,'- 
voting  districts,  the  registrars  of  voters  in  such  districts  shall 
appoint  the  moderators  of  the  meetings  of  electors  in  their 
respective  towns  or  districts.  In  case  registrars  shall  fail  to 
agree  in  the  choice  of  a  moderator,  the  choice  shall  be  deter- 
mined between  them  by  lot,  and  in  like  manner  they  shall 
appoint  the  moderators  to  have  charge  of  any  vote  by  ballot 
in  town  meetings  for  the  election  of  officers,  and  of  any  vote 
by  ballot  in  any  city  meeting  or  ward  meeting  for  the  election 
of  officers. 

Sec.  25.  At  every  electors'  meeting  and  at  every  election  of  Bo^teuders. 
town,  city,  or  ward  officers  by  ballot,  the  registrars  of  each 
town  or  district,  as  the  case  may  be,  shall  appoint  a  suitable 
elector,  residing  therein,  for  each  ballot-box  to  be  box-tender, 
and  one  or  two  others,  as  may  be  necessary,  to  be  substitute 
box-tenders  for  each  box,  respectively.     No  person  not  so 

(ppointed  shall  have  charge  of  any  ballot-box  during  the 
Biking  of  any  vote,  and  no  known  candidate  for  any  office 
ball  be  moderator,  or  be  put  in  charge  of  any  box  in  which 
otes  are  cast  for  said  office,  or  take  part  in  the  count  thereof; 
and  any  violation  of  this  section  by  any  such  candidate  shall 
render  the  votes  cast  for  him  void. 

Sec.  26.     In  the  town  and  City  of  Hartford,  the  moderator  who  to  d.-ciare  re- 

«/  '  suit,  ol  the  ballot 

of  the  second  voting  district,  and  in  every  other  town  and  umj^t^'tifesecrJ-"'" 
city  divided  into  voting  districts,  unless  otherwise  provided 
by  special  statute,  the  moderator  of  the  first  district  shall  be 
the  presiding  officer  for  the  purpose  of  declaring  the  result  of 
the  ballot  of  the  whole  town  or  city,  and  of  making  returns 
to  the  secretary  of  state,  and  the  moderators  of  the  other  dis- 
tricts shall  be  assistant  presiding  officers,  and  shall  make 
returns  of  their  polls  as  required  by  law. 

Sec.  29.     At  any  electors'  meeting,  and  at  any  town  or  city  ^e'J,'to?s''audd^v 
meeting  for  the  election  of  officers  by  ballot,  those  only  shall  '"*'''""^'- 
vote  who  were  registered  on  the  revised  registry  list  then  last 
completed  according  to  law,  and  each  shall  vote  in  the  district 


76 


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Registrars  to  be 
present  duriug  the 
taking  any  vote  at 
electors'  meeting  or 
•ity  election. 


Counting  the  bal- 
lots. 


in  which  he  was  so  registered:  provided,  also,  that  those  per- 
sons may  vote  whose  names  are  restored  to  the  list  under  the 
provisions  of  section  thirteen  of  this  act,  and  those  whose 
names  are  added  on  the  day  before  electors'  meeting  under 
the  provision  of  section  fifteen  of  this  act.  Every  person  so 
registered  shall  be  permitted  to  vote  unless  he  shall  have  lost 
his  right  by  removal  from  the  town  after  such  registration, 
or  by  conviction  of  some  crime  which  disfranchises;  and 
every  person  offering  so  to  vote,  and  being  challenged  as  to 
his  identity,  or  residence,  shall  before  he  votes  prove  his  iden- 
tity with  the  person  on  whose  name  he  offers  to  vote,  or  his 
continued  residence  in  such  town,  since  the  completion  of 
.such  list,  as  the  case  may  be,  by  the  testimony,  under  oath, 
of  at  least  one  other  elector. 

Sec.  32.  Each  registrar  shall  be  present  during  the  taking 
of  any  vote  at  any  electors'  meeting,  or  annual  town  meeting, 
or  city  election  in  his  town  or  district.  In  Hartford,  New 
Haven,  Bridgeport,  Waterbury,  Norwich,  Meriden,  New  Brit- 
ain, and  Middletown,  the  assistants  in  their  respective  dis- 
tricts shall,  when  requested  by  either  registrar,  be  present  at 
the  taking  of  any  such  vote,  and  discharge  the  duties  of  reg- 
istrars. The  several  registrars  shall  appoint  some  propei" 
person  to  check  the  list  in  each  district,  who  shall  check  th(.' 
name  of  each  voter  thereon,  when  he  offers  his  vote,  and  no 
box-tender  shall  suffer  any  vote  to  be  deposited  in  the  box 
until  the  name  is  so  checked.  Immediately  after  the  close  ol 
the  polls  the  said  registrars,  acting  at  the  respective  polls, 
shall  write  and  sign  with  ink,  on  the  list  so  used  and  checked, 
a  certificate  of  the  whole  number  of  names  registered  thereon, 
the  number  of  names  checked  as  having  voted,  and  the  num- 
ber not  checked  thereon,  and  deposit  it  in  the  town  clerk't^ 
office  of  their  town,  on  or  before  the  following  day,  and  such 
town  clerk  shall  carefully  preserve  the  same  on  file,  with  tho 
marks  on  it  without  alteration,  for  public  inspection,  and 
shall  immediately  enter  a  certified  copy  of  such  certificates 
on  the  town  records. 

Sec.  33.     At  every  election  specified  in  the  preceding  sec- 
tions, each  registrar  shall  appoint  from  one  to  five  jnu-sons. 


ELECTORS  AND  ELECTIONS.  77 

as  may  be  necessary,  for  each  ballot-box  in  his  district  or 
town,  who  shall  make  the  official  count  of  the  ballots  in  said 
box,  and  said  counters  shall  be  sworn  before  entering  on  their 
duties.     Immediately  after  the  ballot-boxes  are  closed  at  such  ~~ 

meeting,  and  not  before,  the  counters  shall,  in  public  meeting, 
sort  and  count  the  ballots  found  therein.  In  case  of  doubt 
or  dispute  as  to  the  reading  of  a  ballot,  or  whether  a  ballot 
should  be  rejected  as  double,  or  for  any  other  cause,  the  mod- 
erator shall  decide.  All  ballots  rejected  for  being  in  the 
wrong  box,  for  being  double,  or  containing  an  excess  of  can- 
didates, or  for  any  other  cause,  shall,  after  being  indorsed  by 
the  moderator  with  the  cause  of  rejection,  be  preserved,  in  a 
separate  parcel,  securely  tied  or  sealed,  and  returned  to  the 
box  with  the  valid  votes.  The  counters,  immediately  after 
the  count  is  completed,  shall,  under  their  hands  or  the  hands 
of  a  majority  of  them,  deliver  to  the  moderator  a  certificate 
in  duplicate,  stating  the  whole  number  of  ballots  found  in 
their  box,  the  number  of  ballots  rejected  because  in  the 
wrong  box,  the  number  rejected  as  double,  the  number 
rejected  for  any  other  reason,  and  the  number  of  votes 
counted  for  each  candidate  and  office  respectively.  -  The  mod- 
erator shall,  before  adjournment,  publicly  declare  the  result  S^^^'J'**'"""^^''^ 
of  the  count.  The  moderator  shall  forthwith  indorse  on  said 
certificates,  in  writing  signed  by  him,  that  said  certificates 
show  the  result  of  the  official  count  for  each,  box,  respectively, 
in  his  town  or  district.  One  of  said  certificates  he  shall  place 
in  the  ballot-box  and  seal  up  with  the  votes  cast  and  returned 
to  that  box,  the  other,  in  towns  not  divided  into  voting  dis- 
tricts, shall  by  the  moderator,  on  or  before  the  following  day, 
be  deposited  in  the  office  of  the  town  clerk,  and  in  towns 
divided  into  voting  districts,  shall  by  the  assistant  presiding 
officers  forthwith  be  returned  to  the  presiding  officer,  who 
shall,  on  or  before  the  following  day,  deposit  the  same,  with 
his  own  duplicate  certificate,  for  his  district,  with  the  town 
clerk,  who  shall  carefully  preserve  the  same  on  file  in  his 
office.  The  presiding  officer,  after  having  ascertained  the 
result  of  the  ballots  of  the  whole  town,  as  given  in  the  sev- 
eral districts,  shall  declare  the  same  in  open  meeting,  at  the 


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Secretary  to  record     COitO. 
and  report  returns, 


Ballots  not  to  be 
counted. 


voting  place  where  ho  presides ;  and  such  meeting  shall  not 
be   adjourned  until   such  vote   is   declared.     The  presiding 
SrVth^e'slcrS*'  officer  shall,   with   the   certificate    upon  the   result   of   the 
^*'^^*  electors'  meeting,  which  he  is  required  by  law  to  send  by 

mail  to  the  secretary  of  state,  also  send  to  the  secretary  of 
state  his  certificate  of  the  whole  number  of  names  on  the 
registry  lists,  the  whole  number  checked  as  having  voted  at 
such  elections,  the  whole  number  of  names  not  checked,  the 
number  of  ballots  found  in  each  box,  viz.:  "general"  and 
"representative,"  and  the  number  of  ballots  in  each  box  not 
counted  as  in  the  wrong. box,  and  the  number  not  counted 
for  being  double,  and  the  number  rejected  for  other  causes, 
which  other  causes  shall  be  stated  specifically  in  the  certifi- 
The  secretary  of  state  shall  enter  said  returns  in 
tabular  form,  in  books  kept  by  him  for  that  purpose,  and  an- 
nually report  the  same  to  the  (xeneral  Assembty. 

Sec.  34.  No  double  ballot  for  the  same  officer,  nor  any 
ballot  found  in  any  other  box  than  the  one  designated  there- 
for, shall  be  counted.  No  ballot  shall  be  deemed  a  double 
ballot  unless  it  shall  consist  of  two  or  more  pieces  of  paper 
upon  which  are  duplicated  or  repeated  the  names  of  one  or 
more  candidates  for  the  same  office.  If  any  ballot  shall  con- 
tain a  greater  number  of  names  for  any  office  than  is  provided 
by  law,  it  shall  not  be  counted  for  any  person  for  such  office. 
Sec.  35.  All  the  ballots  cast  at  any  electors'  meeting,  or  at 
any  town  or  city  election  by  ballot,  shall  by  the  moderator 
immediately  after  they  are  counted,  be  returned  to  the  box, 
which  shall  be  locked  and  sealed  up  by  him,  so  that  the  same 
cannot  be  opened  without  his  knowledge,  and  deposited  in 
the  town  clerk's  office,  and  shall  be  by  such  clerk  carefully 
preserved  with  the  seal  unbroken  for  six  months  after  suclJI 
meeting,  to  be  opened  and  the  ballots  examined  only  by  those 
authorized  to  make  an  official  examination  of  them.  If  such 
boxes  are  opened  under  authority  of  a  judge  of  Superio™! 
Court,  charged  with  inquiring  into  an  election,  the  said  judge 
shall  see  that  all  the  ballots  and  the  accompanying  certificates^ 
are  returned  to  the  box,  and  the  same  effectually  sealed 
again. 


Ballot-boxes  con- 
taining the  ballots 
to  be  sealed  up. 


ELECTORS  AND  ELECTIONS.  79 

Sec.  38.     The  several  moderators,  box-tenders,  and  official  JJSSddTeck. 
eheekers,  provided  for  in  this  act,  shall,  before  they  enter  on  whomajldmhi'ist°er 
the  discharge  of  their  respective  offices,  be  sworn  to  a  faith- 
ful discharge  of  the  duties  of  the  same,  and  the  several  mod- 
erators and  registrars  shall  have  power  to  administer  such 
oath. 

III.    -    . 

Section  1.  The  registrars  of  the  town  of  Hartford  shall,  c'itf Sng! '"'" 
at  least  three  weeks  before  any  annual  city  meeting  of  the  ••'°-  -p- 
City  of  Hartford,  prepare  for  each  ward  of  said  city  a  correct 
list  of  all  persons  entitled  to  vote  in  such  ward  at  such  meet- 
ing, under  the  provisions  of  the  charter  of  said  city.  Said 
list  shall  contain  all  the  matters  of  description  required  b}^ 
law  for  lists-  made  for  the  annual  electors'  meetino-  of  the 
town  of  Hartford.  Said  lists  shall  be  alphabetically  arranged, 
certified  by  the  registrars,  and  deposited  in  the  office  of  the 
city  clerk  for  public  inspection,  and  a  copy  of  the  list  for 
each  ward,  duly  certified,  shall  be  posted  in  some  public  place 
in  such  ward  at  least  three  weeks  before  the  annual  city 

jaeeting. 

BbEC.  2.     The  registrars  shall  give  notice  on  said  lists  of  the  Kevworof  afts. 
times  and  place  at  which  they  will  hold  two  sessions,  within 
the  next  twelve  days,  for  the  revision  and  correction  of  such    - 
lists,  and  shall  also  give  notice  of  the. times  and  place  of  said 
sessions  by  publication  in  two  newspapers  published  in  said 
city,  at  least  five  days  before  the  first  of  said  sessions. 

Sec.  3.     Said  registrars  shall  meet,  pursuant  to  said  notice,  i^/sts  to  be  com- 

*-■  -'   -••  "  pleted  and  fur- 

and  shall  correct  said  lists  by  the  addition  or  erasure  of  "'^'"'^ '" ''''^' '='^^'^- 
names,  as  required ;  they  shall  complete  said  corrected  lists 
and  deposit  them  in  the  city  clerk's  office  on  or  before  the 
Monday  preceding  the  annual  city  meeting,  and  shall  furnish 
to  the  city  clerk  a  sufficient  number  of  copies  of  said  lists, 
duly  certified,  to  be  used  at  said  meeting. 

Sec.  4.     The  compensation  of  said  registrars  shall  be  fixed  J;°'?PtJ^^f '"°  "^ 
by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  and  paid  by  said  city,  but 
shall  not  be  regulated  by  the  number  of  names  registered. 

Sec  5.     For  the  first  annual  city  election  holden  after  the 
passage  of  this  act,  a  preparation  of  the  registry  list  two 


80 


ELECTORS   AND    ELECTIONS. 


"When  to  take  effect. 


weeks  before  said  election,  and  the  posting  of  said  list  two 
weeks  before  said  election,  shall  be  sufficient. 

Sec.  6.     This  act  shall  take  elfect  from  its  passage. 

Approved,  March  16,  1877. 


Contested  city  elec- 
tions, how  deter- 
mined. 
P.  A.,  1878,  p.  326, 


Repeal  acts  1877, 
chapter  cxlvi,  sec- 
tion 36,  p.  244. 


lY. 

Section  1.  Any  person  claiming  to  have  been  elected 
selectman,  clerk,  treasurer,  collector  of  taxes,  assessor,  grand 
juror,  constable,  registrar  of  voters,  or  registrar  of  births, 
deaths,  and  marriages  of  any  town,  or  mayor,  clerk,  treas- 
urer, auditor,  collector  of  taxes,  alderman,  or  councilman  of 
any  city,  but  not  so  declared,  may,  within  sixty  days  after 
the  time  of  holding  the  elections,  bring  his  petition  to  any 
judge  of  the  Superior  Court,  alleging  the  facts  on  which  such 
claim  is  founded,  which  shall  be  served  upon  the  party 
against  whom  the  claim  is  made  at  least  six  days  before  the 
return  day,  and  returnable  not  more  than  sixty-three  days 
after  the  day  of  such  election,  and  such  judge  shall  thereupon 
hear  and  determine  said  petition,  and  his  decision  thereon 
shall  be  conclusive,  and  if  in  favor  of  the  petitioner,  his 
certificate  to  that  effect,  under  the  seal  of  the  court,  shall 
entitle  the  petitioner  to  hold  and  exercise  the  duties  and 
powers  of  such  office.  And  said  judge  may,  if  necessary, 
issue  his  writ  of  mandamus  requiring  the  adverse  party  and 
those  under  him  to  deliver  to  the  petitioner  the  appurtenances 
of  such  office,  and  shall  cause  his  finding  and  decree  to  be 
entered  in  the  records  of  said  court,  in  the  f>roper  county. 

Sec.  2.  Section  thirty-six  of  chapter  one  hundred  and 
forty-six  of  the  public  acts,  passed  January  session,  1877,  is 
hereby  repealed. 

Approved,  March  27,  1878. 


City  meetings ;  how 

Warned. 

R.  S.,  p,  83,  §  1. 


The  warning  of  every  meeting  of  a  town,  city,  borough, 
school  society,  school  district,  or  other  public  community,  or 
of  an  ecclesiastical  society,  or  of  proprietors  of  common  fields 
shall  specify  the  objects  for  which  such  meeting  is  to  be  held. 


FINANCE   AND    LOANS. 


81 


PmANCE  AND  LOANS. 


I.  Capitol  bonds. 

II.  Meeting     to     authorize     capitol 
bonds. 

III.  Additional  capitol  bonds. 

IV.  Park  bonds. 

V.  Additional  park  bonds. 

VI.  General  power  to  issue  bonds. 

VII.  Registered  or  coupon  bonds. 


Vill.  Water  bonds. 

IX.  Additional  water  bonds. 

X.  Additional  water  bonds. 

XI.  Additional  water  bonds. 

XII.  Additional  water  bonds. 

XIII.  Hartford  bridge  bonds. 

XIV.  Returns  of  municipal  indebted- 


I. 

That  for  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  expense  of  construct-  fgi^yepi^dlfof  con- 
ing a  state  house  in  the  City  of  Hartford,  and  of  purchasing  hous°e andpurchlse 
the  land  upon  which  the  same  shall  be  erected,  said  City  of  ^•^••'°^-^' p*'- 
Hartford  be  and  hereby  is  authorized  to  issue  its  bonds  with 
coupons  attached,  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  the  sum  of  one 
millioii  of  dollars,  and  bearing  interest  at  no  greater  rate  than 
six  per  cent,  per  annum,  payable  semi-annually;  said  bonds 
shall  be  called  and  known  as  capitol  bonds  of  the  Citj^  <^^  2^nds!'aK'ife"°' 
Hartford,   and   the  same  shall  be  free  from  taxation;    said   ^  ""°  axaion. 
bonds  shall  be  executed  under  the  corporate  name  and  seal  of 
said  city,  by  such  person  or  persons  as  shall  by  the  Court  of  how  executed. 
Common  Council  of  said  city  be  appointed  for  such  purpose, 
and   said   Court   of   Common   Council   shall    prescribe    the 
amount  for  which  said  bonds  shall  be  severally  issued,  the 
form  thereof,  the  rate  of  interest  thereon,  not  greater  than 
the  rate  herein  mentioned,  the  time  of  paying  the  same,  and 
the  principal  thereof 

This  resolution  shall  not  take  ettect  unless  the  issue  of  said  Resolution  to  take 

effect  when. 

bonds  shall  be  approved  by  a  city  meeting  of  said  Citj'  of 
Hartford,  specially  warned  and  held  for  that  purpose. 
Approved,  July  17,  1871. 


II. 

That  the  City  of  Hartford  be  and  hereby  is  authorized  to  fn^g^^^^^eSt^*^' 
hold  a  special  cit}^  meeting,  to  be  warned  in  the  manner  pro-  s?a.'voi.7,  p. 99. 
vided  by  the  charter  and  ordinances  of  said  city  for  holding 
city  meetings,  for  the  purpose  of  authorizing  said  city,  if  said 


82  FINANCE    AND    LOANS. 

meeting  shall  so  direct,  to  issue  its  bonds  in  accordance  with 
a  resolution  heretofore  passed  by  the  General  Assembl}^  at  its 
present  session,  entitled  a  resolution  relative  to  the  issue  of 
capitol  bonds  of  the  City  of  Hartford;  the  vote  of  said  meet- 

vote  to  be  by  ballot,  [jig  ghall  bc  by  ballot,  and  shall  be  cast  by  the  freemen  of  said 
city  in  their  respective  wards,  and  the  ballot-boxes  shall  be 

Polk  open  and  close,  opcncd  at  scvcu  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  and  closed  at  five 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of  the  day  of  said  meeting. 

^*"°'^-  Upon  each  ballot  shall  be  written  or  printed  the  word  yes, 

or  the  word  no,  and  if  a  majority  of  the  ballots  cast  at  said 
meeting  shall  have  upon  them  the  word  yes,  then  the  issue  of 
said  bonds  shall  be  deemed  approved ;  otherwise  not. 
Approved,  July  17,  1871. 

III. 


bonds, 

S.  A.,  vol.  7,  p.  509. 


Additional  capitol  Whcveas,  At  the  session  of  the  General  Assembly,  holden  at 
Hartford  on  the  first  Wednesday  of  Ma}^,  A.  D.  1871,  a 
resolution  was  passed  authorizing  the  City  of  Hartford  to 
issue  its  bonds  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  the  sum  of  one 
million  dollars  for  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  expense  of 
constructing  a  state  house  in  said  city,  and  of  purchasing 
the  land  upon  which  to  erect  the  same,  said  bonds  to  be 
known  and  called  capitol  bonds  of  the  City  of  Hartford; 
and 
Whereas,  The  said  City  of  Hartford  has  expended  the  sum 
of  six  hundred  thousand  dollars  for  the  purchase  of  said 
land;  therefore. 

Resolved  by  this  Assembly,  That  said  City  of  Hartford  be, 
and  hereby  is  authorized  for  the  purpose  of  defraying  saidj 
additional  expenditure,  to  issue  its  bonds  with  coupons; 
attached  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  the  sum  of  one  hundred 
thousand  dollars,  and  bearing  interest  at  no  greater  rate  than 
six  per  cent,  per  annum,  payable  semi-annually ;  said  bonds 
shall  be  known  and  called  additional  capitol  bonds  of  the 
City  of  Hartford,  and  the  same  shall  be  free  from  taxation; 
said  bonds  shall  be  executed  under  the  corporate  name  and 
seal  of  said  city,  by  such  person  or  persons  as  shall  by  the 
Court  of  Common  Council  of  said  cit}^  be  appointed  for  such 


FINANCE   AND   LOANS.  83 

purpose;  and  said  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  prescribe 
the  amount  for  which  said  bonds  shall  be  severally  issued,  the 
form  thereof,  the  rate  of  interest  thereon,  not  greater  than 
the  rate  herein  mentioned,  the  time  of  paying  the  same,  and 
the  principal  thereof 

Approved,  June  27,  1873. 

Section  1.  That  the  mayor,  aldermen,  common  council,  So^nr^Z^I^X 
and  freemen  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  be  and  they  are  hereby  ig*"^*-^^,  .  ^ 
authorized  and  empowered  to  issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates 
of  debt  under  the  coi-porate  name  and  seal  of  said  city,  bear- 
ing interest  at  no  greater  rate  than  six  per  cent,  per  annum, 
to  any  amount  not  exceeding  in  the  whole  the  sum  of  one 
hundred  thousand  dollars;  the  principal  of  which  said  notes, 
scrip,  or  certificates  of  (febt,  shall  be  payable  at  some  certain 
time  or  times  within  twenty -five  years  from  the  issuing  of 
^Bic  same;  and  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  shall 
be  denominated  "The  Park  Fund  of  the  City  of  Hartford," 
and  the  avails  thereof  shall  be  applied  and  expended  to  and  iVpayfor^park^*''' 
for  the  purpose  of  the  payment  for  lands  heretofore  pur- 
chased or  hereafter  to  be  purchased  by  said  city  for  a  public 
park,  or  for  the  payment  of  damages  heretofore  assessed,  or 
hereafter  to  be  re-assessed,  for  lands  to  be  taken  by  said  city 
for  said  park,  and  for  no  other  purpose  whatsoever ;  and  said 
notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  when  issued  and  delivered  by  said 
city,  or  its  agents  thereunto  duly  authorized,  shall  be  obliga- 
tory upon  said  city  and  the  inhabitants  thereof  according  to 
the  tenor  and  purport  of  the  same ;  and  said  city  at  a  meeting 
legally  warned  and  holden  for  that  purpose,  may  prescribe  cuy  meeting  to  pre- 

o        •/  1         X  7  «/      X  scribe  amount,  etc. 

the  amount  for  which  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  shall  be 
issued,  and  direct  concerning  the  form  thereof,  the  rate  of 
interest,  and  the  time  of  payment  of  the  interest  which  shall 
accrue  thereon. 

Sec.  2.     The  treasurer  of  said  City  of  Hartford,  shall  be  city  treasurer  to  be 

•^  '  trustw. 

the  trustee  of  the  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  issued 
by  said  city,  to  hold  the  same  subject  to  the  direction  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Council ;  and  after  the  same  or  any  part 


84  FINANCE   AND   LOANS. 

of  the  same  have  been  issued,  said  court  may  order  and 
saie^of  notes;  how  require  said  treasurer  to  sell  such  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates 
of  debt,  at  public  or  private  sale,  or  hypothecate  the  same, 
at  their  par  value,  or  at  such  higher  rates  as  the  same  may 
command,  at  such  time  or  times  as  the  avails  of  the  same 
shall  be  needed  to  meet  payments  for  lands  purchased,  or 
damages  assessed  as  aforesaid ;  and  said  court  may  make  all 
Eeoord;  how  kept,    ncccssary  orders  for  the  security  and  safe  keeping  of  said 
notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  and  of  the  moneys  accru- 
ing therefrom,  not  in  conflict  Avith  this  act.     And  a  duplicate 
record  shall  t)e  kept  by  said  treasurer  of  all  notes,  scrip,  or 
certificates  of  debt  issued,  sold  or  pledged  in  pursuance  of  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  one  copy  of  which  shall  be  deposited 
with  the  clerk  of  said  city,  which  copy  shall  at  all  times 
exhibit  a  true  account  of  said  notes  and  moneys;  and  the 
to^bediS'in''"  avails  of  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  shall  be  deposited  in 
city  banks.  ^^^  ^^^  morc  of  thc  banks  of  said  city,  and  shall  be  drawn  out 

only  on  the  order  of  the  auditor  of  ^ity  accounts ;  and  said 
freTsuKr"''"""^     court  may  fix  a  reasonable  compensation  for  any  services  ren- 
dered by  said  treasurer  in  conformity  with  this  act. 
Act;howconiirined.      Seo.  3.     This  act  sliall  bc,  to  all  intents,  a  part  of  the  char- 
ter of  said  City  of  Hartford,  whenever  said  city  shall  vote  in 
pursuance  of  the  provisions  of  the  first  section  hereof,  to 
issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  as  herein  authorized. 
Approved,  June  19,  1857. 

V. 

paAbonds^     316       Upou  thc  pctitlou  of  thc  mayor,  aldermen,  common 

cil,  and  freemen,  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  praying  for  author- 
ity to  issue  bonds  in  payment  of  lands  purchased  for  thc  park 
in  said  city,  as  per  memorial  on  file,  dated  May  10,  1859,  will 
more  fully  appear: 
SssuenotesTete**       jResoZvet?  Ijy  tMs  Assembly:    That  the  Court   of  Common 
Council  of  the  City  of  Hartford  be,  and  they  are  hereby 
authorized  and  empowered  to  issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates 
of  debt,  under  the  corporate  name  and  seal  of  said  city,  bear- 
six  per  cent,         ing  interest  at  no  greater  rate  than  six  per  cent,  per  annum, 
Stooo!"*'^^'*        to  an  amount  not  exceeding  thirty  thousand  dollars,  the  prin- 


FINANCE   AND    LOANS.  85 

cipal  of  which  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  shall 
be  payable  at  some  certain  time  or  times,  within  twenty-five  f^y„ty'flv?years. 
years  from  the  issuing  of  the  same,  as  the  said  Court  of  Com- 
mon Council  may  direct ;  and  said  Court  of  Common  Council  ^ZS *?tc^"''"'^ 

may  prescribe  the  amount  for  Avhich  said  notes,  scrip,  or  cer-        ^ 

tificates   shall   be   issued,   and   direct   concerning  the   form  ;^;/e"t'!'and'pay ' 
thereof,  the  rate  of  interest,  and  the  time  of  the  payment  of '"''"'• 
the  interest  which  shall  accrue  thereon ;  and  said  notes,  scrip, 
or  certificates  of  debt,  shall  constitute  a  part  of  the  "Park 
Fund  of  the  City  of  Hartford,"  and  the  avails  thereof  shall  ^:^t%^Atl 
be  applied  and  expended  for  the  payment  of  lands  purchased 
by  said  city  for  a  public  park,  and  for  no  other  pui-j^ose  what- 
ever; and  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates,  when  issued  and  Nf;^jp^J^-i°f,\8^^^ 
delivered,  shall  be  obligatory  upon  said  city  and  the  inhabit- 
ants thereof,  according  to  the  tenor  and  purport  of  the  same. 
The  treasurer  of  said  City  of  Hartford  shall  be  the  trustee  of  Siy,^^/„^^"„;\;s. 
the  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debts,  as  hereby  authorized, 
to  hold,  dispose  of,  and  account  for  the  same,  subject  to  the 
orders  and  directions  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  and 
the  provisions  of  the  charter  of  said  city. 
Approved,  May  27,  1859. 

YI. 

That,  whenever  the  City  of  Hartford  shall  desire  to  borrow 
money  for  any  purpose  for  which  the  Court  of  Common 
Council,  of  said  city,  are  authorized  to  lay  taxes,  under  the 
restrictions  of  the  act  to  which  this  act  is  an  addition,  the 
said  Court  of  Common  Council  be,  and  they  hereby  are,  £T,°^i^tx*Jerce^t. 
authorized  and  empowered  to  issue  bonds,  under  the  coqiorate  s?a.?v^i.T,p.538. 
name  and  seal  of  said  city,  bearing  interest  at  no  greater  rate 
than  six  per  cent,  per  annum ;  the  principal  of  which  said 
bonds  shall  be  payable  at  some  certain  time  or  times  within 
twenty-five  years  from  the  issuing  of  the  same,  as  the  said 
Court  of  Common  Council  may  direct;  and  said  Court  of 
Common  Council  may  prescribe  the  amount  for  which  said 
bonds  shall  be  issued,  and  direct  concerning  the  form  thereof, 
the  rate  of  interest,  and  the  time  of  payment  of  the  interest 
which  shall  accrue  thereon  ;  and  said  bonds,  when  issued  and 


Ob  FINANCE   AND    LOANS. 

delivered,  shall  be  obligatory  upon  said  city  and  the  inhabit- 
ants thereof,  according  to  the  tenor  and  purport  of  the  same. 
^ruftSbondt^  The  treasurer  of  said  City  of  Hartford  shall  be  trustee  of  said 
bonds,  to  hold,  dispose  of,  and  account  for  the  same,  subject  to 
the  orders  and  directions  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council, 
and  the  provisions  of  the  charter  of  said  city. 
Approved,  July  1,  1863. 

YII. 

Cities  may  issue  Section  1.     Thc  scvcral  towns,  cities,  and  boroughs,  of  this 

either  registered  or  ;  J  O        ; 

sTrvoK'p.  890.  state,  authorized  by  law  to  issue  bonds,  may  issue  either  reg- 
istered or  coupon  bonds,  and  such  towns,  cities,  and  boroughs, 
as  have  heretofore  issued  coupon  bonds  by  authority  of  law, 
are  hereby  empowered  to  issue  registered  bonds  and  exchange 
the  same  for  the  coupon  bonds  now  issued  by  such  towns, 
cities,  or  boroughs :  provided,  that  no  greater  amount  of  bonds 
shall  be  issued  than  is  now  authorized  by  the  laws  of  this 
state. 

Exchanged  bonds,        Sec.  2.     Thc  coupou  bonds  received  by  the  several  towns, 

canceled  and  re-  _    ^  "^ 

corded.  cities,  and  boroughs,  in  exchange  for  registered  bonds,  shall 

be  canceled,  and  a  full  record  made  on  the  books  of  the  town, 
city,  or  borough,  of  all  such  bonds  so  exchanged  and  canceled. 
Approved,  July  8,  1870. 

YIII. 

City  authorized  to       SECTION  1.     That  thc  mayor,  aldermen,  common  council, 

supply  water  from 

s?Ar.'^."3.'p.'3^,  and  freemen  of  the  City  of  Hartford  be  and  hereby  are 
authorized  and  empowered  in  the  manner  hereinafter  pre- 
scribed to  take  and  convey  from  thc  Connecticut  river,  at 
some  point  within  or  near  the  City  of  Hartford,  such  supply 
of  water  as  the  necessities  and  convenience  of  the  inhabitants 
of  said  city  may  require ;  and  are  also  hereby  authorized  and 

Mayjissne bonds  empowcrcd  to  Issuc  notcs,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  under 
the  corporate  name  and  seal  of  the  city,  bearing  interest  at 
no  greater  rate  than  six  per  cent,  per  annum,  to  any  amount 
not  exceeding  in  the  whole  the  sum  of  two  hundred  and  fifty 
thousand  dollars ;  the  principal  of  which  said  notes,  scrip,  or 


therefor. 


FINANCE   AND    LOANS.  87 

certificates  shall  be  payable  at  some  certain  time  or  times 
within  twenty-five  years  from  the  issuing  of  the  same,  and 
said  notes,  scrip,  or  cei-tificates  shall  be  denominated  the 
"Water  Fund  of  the  City  of  Hartford,"  and  the  avails  thereof  ^;p«il'ed!''^"" 

shall  be  applied  and  expended  to  and  for  the  purpose  of  sup-        --^ 

plying  said  city  with  pure  and  wholesome  water,  according 
to  the  mode  or  plan  adopted  in  pursuance  of  the  provisions 
of  this  act,  and  for  no  other  purpose  whatsoever;  and  said 
notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  when  issued  and  delivered  by  said 
city  or  by  its  agent  thereunto  duly  authorized,  shall  be  obli- 
gatory upon  said  city  and  the  inhabitants  thereof  according 
to  the  purport  and  tenor  of  the  same ;  and  said  city  in  a  city  cuy  meeting  may 

i         J-  '  J  ,]     prescribe  amount, 

meeting  legally  warned  and  holden  for  that  purpose,  maj^  '"*"' 
prescribe  the  amount  for  which  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certifi- 
cates shall  be  issued,  and  direct  concerning  the  form  thereof, 
the  note  of  interest  and  the  time  of  paying  the  interest  which 
shall  accrue  thereon. 

Sec.  10.     Said  commissioners  or  board  shall  be  the  trustees  water  commission- 

ers  trustees  of  scrip. 

of  the  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  issued  by  said  City 
of  Hartford,  and  may  be  authorized  by  said  city  to  superin- 
fctend  the  issuing  of  the  same  and  regulate  the  particular  form 
^Bthereof,  and  after  the  same  or  any  part  of  them  shall  be 
^fcssued,  said  commissioners  may  sell  such  notes  or  certificates  scrip,  how  dis- 

^B  ''  posed  of. 

Hat  public  or  private  sale  for  their  par  value,  or  at  such  higher 
Hrate  as  said  scrip  shall  command,  or  may  pledge  the  same  for 
■  loans  not  usurious  under  the  direction  of  the  Court  of  Com- 
\  mon  Council  at  such  times  as  the  proceeds  or  avails  of  the 
same  shall  be  required  to  meet  the  appropriations  made  or 
allowed  for  the  surveying,  preparing,  constructing,  and  main- 
taining of  water  works  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council, 
and  the  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  direct  what  sum  of 
money  shall  be  raised  from  and  upon  said  scrip  before  they 
shall  permit  the  construction  of  water  works  to  be  commenced 
and  prosecuted,  and  a  duplicate  record  shall  be  kept  by  said  Record,  how  kept. 
commissioners  of  all  notes  or  certificates  issued,  disposed  of, 
or  pledged  in  pursuance  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  one 
copy  thereof  to  be  by  them  delivered  to  the  city  treasurer, 
and  all  moneys  received  by  said  commissioners  shall  be  de- 


88 


FINANCE    AND    LOANS. 


Monies  received  de- 
posited in  city 
baulcs. 
Money,  how  drawn. 


Commissioners, 
duties  of. 


Account  of  water 
rents,  tiow  audited. 


Avails  of  water 
rents,  how  ex- 
pended. 


Council  may  direct 
concerning. 


Tax  authorized, 
when. 


Tax,  how  laid. 


Sinking  fund. 


posited  in  one  or  more  of  the  banks  in  the  City  of  Hartford, 
and  shall  be  drawn  out  only  on  the  order  of  the  city  treasurer. 

Sec.  15.  Said  commissioners  shall  keep  a  register  of  all 
persons  who  use  the  water  and  of  the  prices  by  them  payable 
therefor,  and  shall  apply  the  avails  of  water  rents  to  the  pay- 
ment of  the  ordinary  and  current  expenses  of  said  water 
works,  such  as  repairs,  the  hire  of  clerks  and  agents,  and  of 
extending  pipes  into  new  localities  (under  the  direction  of 
the  Court  of  Common  Council)  and  shall  pay  any  excess  of 
such  avails  over  the  sum  requisite  for  the  last-mentioned  pur- 
poses, to  the  city  treasurer  on  the  first  Monday  of  each  and 
every  month  on  account  of  water  rent  received  and  expended 
during  the  preceding  month,  having  been  first  audited  by  the 
auditor  of  city  accounts  on  the  same  day  and  by  him  ap- 
proved. The  account  so  presented  shall  be  attested  by  the 
oath  or  affirmation  of  at  least  one  member  of  the  board. 

Sec.  16.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  treasurer  to  apply 
any  avails  of  water  rents  by  him  received  to  the  payment  of 
interest  on  the  aforesaid  scrip  or  certificates  of  debt;  and  if 
there  be  an  excess  to  report  the  fact  to  the  Court  of  Common 
Council,  who  may  direct  whether  the  same  shall  be  applied 
to  the  extinguishment  of  the  principal  debt  incurred  by  the 
issuing  of  said  scrip  or  to  the  enlargement  of  the  water 
works. 

Sec.  17.  In  case  the  avails  of  water  rents  in  any  year  shall 
be  inadequate  to  meet  the  current  expenses  of  said  water 
works  and  the  interest  on  said  scrip,  the  deficiency  shall  be 
supplied  by  the  laying  of  a  tax  on  the  grand  list  of  all  per- 
sons liable  to  city  taxation,  which  said  tax  shall  be  estimated 
by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  and  recommended  to  a  city 
meeting  especially  called  for  the  purpose  of  laying  the  same, 
and  said  meeting  may  then  lay  such  tax  as  shall  be  necessarj' 
to  meet  the  aforesaid  deficiency.  And  said  city  at  any  city 
meeting  specially  called  and  holden  for  that  purpose  ma}^  lay 
taxes  for  the  purpose  of  paying  the  principal  debt  aforesaid 
or  any  part  thereof,  by  the  establishment  of  a  sinking  fund, 
or  in  any  other  proper  manner. 

Sec.  18.     Taxes  laid  for  the  purposes  mentioned  in  the  pre- 


FINANCE    AND   LOANS.  89 

ceding  section  may  be  collected  in  the  same  manner  as  other  Tax.ho^-couectert. 
city  taxes ;  and  any  claim  of  said  commissioners  for  the  use 
of  water  shall  be  a  lien  upon  the  house,  tenement,  or  lot, 
wherein  or  in  connection  with  which  said  water  was  used  by 

the  owner  or  occupier  thereof     And  said  lien  ma}^  be  fore-  i-ieu^eated^ 

closed  before  the  City  Court  of  the  City  of  Hartford  in  the 
same  manner  as  a  mortgage  is  now  foreclosed  according  to 
the  rules  of  equity. 
Passed,  1853. 

IX. 

Section  1.     That  the  mayor,  aldermen,  common  council,  bo^n^j"*"""^ '"'^^'^ 
and  freemen  of  the  City  of  Hartford  be,  and  they  are  hereby  ^•^■''"'^'^'  p-^^^- 
authorized  and  empowered  to  issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates 
of  debt,  under  the  corporate  name  and  seal  of  the  city,  bear- 
ing interest  at  no  greater  rate  than  six  per  cent,  per  annum, 
to  any  amount  not  exceeding  in  the  whole  the  sum  of  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  thousand  dollars;  the  principal  of  jf^^^^^lgjj'^"'''^- 
which  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates,  shall  be  payable  at 
some  certain  time,  or  times,  within  twenty-five  years  from 
the  issuing, of  the  same;  and  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates 
shall  be  denominated  the  "Additional  Water  Fund  of  the  City 
of  Hartford,"  and  the  avails  thereof  shall  be  applied  and  pJ^Je^^oXater 
expended  to  and  for  the  purpose  of  supplying  said  city  with  J"""''"'"^'- 
pure  and  wholesome  water,  according  to  the  mode  or  plan 
adopted  in  pursuance  of  the  act  to  which  this  is  an  addition, 
and  for  no  other  pur j)ose  whatsoever;  and  said  notes,  scrip, 
or  certificates,  when  issued  and  delivered  by  said  city  or  its 
agents  thereunto  duly  authorized,  shall  be  obligatory  upon 
said  city,  and  the  inhabitants  thereof,  according  to  the  tenor 
and  purport  of  the  same ;  and  said  city,  in  a  meeting  legally  Srlhflmlllu^tT 
warned   and   holden   for  that   purpose,  may  prescribe  the 
amount  for  which  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  shall  be 
issued,  and  direct  concerning  the  form  thereof,  the  rate  of 
interest,  and  the  time  of  paying  the  interest  which  shall 
accrue  thereon. 

Sec.  2.     Said  notes,  scriyj,  or  certificates,  and  all  the  moneys  Regulations  ^^ 

'  J-  '  '  "^       notes,  etc. 

accruing  therefrom,  shall  be  subject  to  all  the  provisions  and 


90 


FINANCE   AND    LOANS. 


Act,  when  to  take 
effect. 


regulations  prescribed  by  the  tenth  section  of  the  act  to 
which  this  is  an  addition. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  go  into  effect  whenever  it  shall  be 
accepted  by  said  city,  as  a  part  of  its  charter,  at  a  special 
city  meeting  legally  warned  and  holden  for  that  purpose. 

Passed,  1856. 

X. 


Additional  water 

bonds. 

8.  A.,  vol.  5,  p.  355. 


Amount  not  to  ex- 
ceed 1100,000. 


Avails  to  be  ex- 
pended for  water 
purposes. 


That  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  of  the  City  of  Hart- 
ford, be,  and  the}^  are  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to 
issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  under  the  corporate 
name  and  seal  of  said  city,  bearing  interest  at  no  greater  rate 
than  six  per  cent,  per  annum,  to  an  amount  not  exceeding 
one  hundred  thousand  dollars,  the  principal  of  which  said 
notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  shall  be  payable  at  some 
certain  time  or  times  within  twenty -five  years  from  the  issu- 
ing of  the  same  as  the  said  Court  of  Common  Council  may 
direct;  and  said  Court  of  Common  Council  may  prescribe 
the  amount  for  which  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  shall  be 
issued,  and  direct  concerning  the  form  thereof,  the  rate  of 
interest,  and  the  time  of  payment  of  the  interest  which  shall 
accrue  thereon;  and  said  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  shall 
be  denominated  the  "  Supplementary  Water  Fund  of  the  City 
of  Hartford;"  and  the  avails  thereof  shall  be  applied  and 
expended  for  water  purposes  and  for  no  other  purpose  what- 
ever; and  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates,  when  issued  and 
delivered,  shall  be  obligatory  upon  said  city  and  the  inhabit- 
ants thereof,  according  to  the  tenor  and  purport  of  the  same. 
The  treasurer  of  said  City  of  Hartford  shall  be  trustee  of  the 
notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  as  hereby  authorized  to 
hold,  dispose  of,  and  account  for  the  same,  subject  to  the 
orders  and  directions  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  and 
the  provisions  of  the  charter  of  said  city. 

Approved,  June  6,  1860. 


XI. 


Additional  water         That  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Hart- 
bonds, 
s.  A.,  vol.  5,  p.  540.  |>^^,j  i^g  j^jj(j  ^^Qy  jiepeby  are,  authorized  and  empowered  to 


FINANCE   AND   LOANS.  '  91 

issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  under  the  corporate 
name  and  seal  of  said  city,  bearing  interest  at  no  greater  rate 
than  six  per  cent,  per  annum,  to  an  amount,  in  addition  to 
the  amount  which  they  are  now  authorized  to  issue,  by  virtue 

of  the  resolution  to  which  this  is  an  addition,  not  exceeding  .     

fifty  thousand  dollars,  the  principal  of  which  said  notes,  scrip,  t^rmm,^"'" 

or  certificates  of  debt  shall  be  payable  at  some  certain  time  or 

times,  within  twenty-five  years  from  the  issuing  of  the  same, 

as  the  said  Court  of  Common  Council  may  direct,  and  said 

Court  of  Common  Council  may  prescribe  the  amount  for 

which  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  shall  be  issued,  and 

direct  concerning  the  form  thereof,  the  rate  of  interest,  and 

the   time  of  payment   of  the   interest   which   shall   accrue 

thereon;    and   said   scrip,    or   certificates   of  debt,    shall  be 

denominated  the  "Additional  Supplementary  Water  Fund  of 

the   City  of  Hartford."     And   the   avails   thereof  shall    be  ^/nledfor  water 

ajiplied  and  expended  for  water  purposes,  and  for  no  other 

purpose  whatever ;  and  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates,  when 

issued  and  delivered,  shall  be  obligatory  upon  said  city  and 

the  inhabitants  thereof,  according  to  the  tenor  and  purport 

of  the  same. 

The  treasurer  of  safd  City  of  Hartford  shall  be  trustee  of  [;4'y f^^^t^eT' ^'"'' 
the  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  hereby  authorized ;  to 
hold,  dispose  of,  and  account  for  the  same,  subject  to  the 
ordjcrs  and  directions  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council  and 
the  provisions  of  the  charter  of  said  city. 

Approved,  July  1,  1863. 

XII. 

Section  1.     That  the  board  of  water  commissioners  of  the  New  mam  and 

reservoir. 

City  of  Hartford,  with  the  consent  of  the  mayor  and  com-  «•  ^^  ^•''- '^' i'- •^2. 
mon  council  of  said  city,  be  and  they  are  hereby  authorized 
and  empowered  to  extend  and  improve  the  water  works  of 
said  city,  by  the  construction  of  a  new  main  from  the  reser- 
voir in  West  Hartford  to  said  city,  and  by  the  construction 
of  a  new  reservoir  or  reservoirs  in  the  town  of  West  Hart- 
ford, and  by  such  other  improvements  in  and  about  said 
water  works  in  the  towns  of  Hartford  or  West  Hartford,  as 


92 


FINANCE   AND   LOANS. 


Bonds  issued  for 
that  purpose. 


Treasurer  to  be 
trustee. 


This  act; 
proved. 


how  ap- 


they  shall  deem  proper:  provided,  that  the  amount  expended 
by  authority  of  this  act  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  of  two 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  said  city, 
be  and  they  hereby  are  authorized  and  empowered  to  issue 
notes,  scrip  or  certificates  of  debt  under  the  corporate  name 
and  seal  of  said  city,  bearing  interest  at  no  greater  rate  than 
six  per  cent,  per  annum,  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  two 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  the  principal  of  which 
said  notes,  scrip  or  certificates  of  debt,  shall  be  payable  at 
some  certain  time  or  times,  within  twenty-five  years  from 
the  issuing  of  the  same,  as  the  said  Court  of  Common  Coun- 
cil may  direct ;  and  said  Court  of  Common  Council  may  pre- 
scribe the  amount  for  which  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates 
of  debt  shall  be  issued,  and  direct  concerning  the  form 
thereof,  the  rate  of  interest,  and  the  time  of  payment  of  the 
interest  which  shall  accrue  thereon ;  and  said  scrip  or  certifi- 
cates of  debt  shall  be  denominated  ''Water  works  improve- 
ment fund  of  the  City  of  Hartford."  And  the  avails  thereof 
shall  be  applied  and  expended  for  improving  and  extending 
the  said  water  works  in  the  manner  herein  provided,  and  for 
no  other  purpose  whatever :  and  said*  notes,  scrip,  or  certifi- 
cates of  debt,  when  issued  and  delivered,  shall  be  obligatory 
upon  said  city  and  the  inhabitants  thereof,  according  to  the 
tenor  and  purport  of  the  same. 

The  treasurer  of  said  City  of  Hartford  shall  be  trustee  of 
the  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  hereby  authorized :  to 
hold,  dispose  of  and  account  for  the  same,  subject  to  the 
orders  and  directions  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council  and 
the  provisions  of  the  charter  of  said  city. 

Sec.  3.  Neither  the  said  board  of  water  commissioners, 
nor  the  said  common  council,  shall  be  authorized  to  take  any 
action  under  this  act  until  the  same  shall  be  approved  in  the 
manner  herein  prescribed.  A  special  meeting  of  the  legal 
voters  of  said  city,  shall  be  called  by  the  mayor  of  said  city 
in  the  manner  provided  by  the  ordinances  of  said  city  for 
calling  special  meetings  thereof,  for  the  purpose  of  approving 
or  disapproving  this  act ;  the  vote  at  said  meeting  shall  be  by 


FINANCE   AND   LOANS.  93 

ballot,  and  shall  be  cast  by  the  freemen  of  said  city,  in  their 
respective  wards ;  the  ballot  boxes  shall  be  opened  at  seven 
o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  and  close  at  five  o'clock  in  the  after- 
noon of  the  day  of  said  meeting;  upon  each  ballot  shall  be 
written  or  printed  the  word,  "Yes,"  or  the  word  "l^o."  If  a 
majority  of  the  ballots  cast  at  said  meeting,  shall  have  the 
word  "Yes,"  then  this  act  shall  be  deemed  approved. 
Approved,  June  25,  1874. 


XIII. 

Section  1.     That  the  City  of  Hartford  and  the  towns  of  ^^^j;; ^^/^'^''^^^d 
Hartford,  East  Hartford,  West  Hartford,  Glastonbury,  Man-  purchairHanford 
Chester,    South    Windsor,   East    Windsor,    Vernon,    Bolton,  ^"^^•'^"'•'^' p-^***- 
Andover,    Hebron,    Marlborough,   Wethersfield,    and    other 
towns  in  Hartford  and  Tolland  counties,  any  or  all  of  them, 
are  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  by  a  major  vote  of  the 
inhabitants  in  city  or  town  meeting  legally  warned  and  held 
specially  for  that  purpose  to  raise  by  tax  or  loan,  and  if  by 
loan  may  issue  bonds  therefor  any  sum  of  money  not  exceed- 
ing two  per  cent,  of  the  assessment  list  of  the  city  or  towns 
last  made  and  perfected  for  the  purpose  of  uniting  with  the 
city  and  other  towns  in  the  purchase  of  the  bridges,  cause- 
way, and  road  of  the  Hartford  Bridge  Company,  for  a  free, 

■—public  highway  over  the  same. 

I^B    Sec.  2.     That  the  City  of  Hartford,  and  any  towns  so  0%  and  towns  may 

■^^V  ^  '  .        *'  agree  as  to  propor- 

■^Braising  money  for  that  purpose  may  associate,  enter  into  con-  *"*"■ 
IBFtract  and  agreement,  and  bind  themselves  to  furnish  the 
(r  money  voted  in  the  city  or  towns  as  their  proportions  respect- 
ively, of  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  to  effect  the 
purchase  of  the  bridge,  causeway,  and  road,  and  provide  a 
surplus  or  fund  for  repairing  and  keeping  the  same  in  repair. 
And  the  city  and  towns  associating  shall  be  liable  in  the  pro-  ^^^Srr^r"" 
portions  of  their  several  subscriptions  to  one  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand  dollars  for  all  damages  to  persons  or  property 
on  said  bridge,  causeway,  and  road,  as  a  public  highway, 
through  defect  of  the  same,  and  shall  be  liable  in  the  same 
proportions   for   all   future   repairs,  and   for  rebuilding  the 


94 


FINANCE   AND   LOANS. 


Mayor  and  select- 
men of  towns  to  be 
a  board  of  mana- 


County  commis- 
sioners shall  lay  out 
highway,  when. 


Compensation  if 
parties  unable  to 
agree. 


Report  of  ap- 
prsilsers. 


bridges  whenever  the  same  shall  be  required  and  ordered  by 
a  majority  of  the  association  or  of  the  Legislature. 

Sec.  3.  That  the  mayor  and  council  of  the  City  of  Hart- 
ford, and  the  selectmen  of  the  several  towns,  shall  constitute 
a  board  for  the  management  of  the  bridge  and  highway, 
under  the  name  of  the  board  of  managers  of  the  Hartford 
Bridge,  and  in  that  name  may  sue  and  be  sued.  The  board 
shall  appoint  a  superintendent,  who,  under  their  directions 
shall  have  charge  of  the  bridge  and  highway.  They  shall 
appoint  a  secretary  and  treasurer,  and  make  annual  reports 
to  the  city  and  towns  of  all  receipts  and  expenditures,  and  of 
the  condition  of  the  bridges  and  highAvay. 

Sec.  4.  That  the  county  commissioners  are  hereby  in- 
structed to  lay  out  a  public  highway  over  the  bridge,  cause- 
way, and  road  of  the  Hartford  Bridge  Company,  when  it 
shall  be  made  to  appear  to  them  that  the  sum  of  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  thousand  dollars  shall  have  been  raised,  and 
the  board  of  managers  organized  according  to  section  third 
of  this  act,  which  road,  when  so  laid  out  and  in  the  posses- 
sion of  the  board  of  managers,  shall  be  a  public  highway 
under  the  statutes  of  this  state. 

Sec.  5.  If  the  parties  shall  be  unable  to  agree  as  to  the 
compensation  to  be  paid  to  said  Hartford  Bridge  Company, 
for  the  appropriation  of  its  property  to  public  use  as  afore- 
said, said  board  of  managers  may  prefer  their  petition  to  the 
Superior  Court  for  Hartford  county,  praying  that  such  com- 
pensation may  be  ascertained  and  determined  by  said  court, 
which  petition  shall  be  served  upon  said  company,  and  pro- 
ceeded with,  in  all  respects,  as  if  a  petition  in  chancery.  And 
said  court  may  appoint  three  judicious  and  disinterested  men, 
who,  after  being  sworn,  and  after  giving  reasonable  notice  to 
the  parties  to  be  heard,  shall  examine  the  bridges,  road,  and 
property  of  said  company,  and  assess  the  just  value  or  com- 
pensation to  be  paid  therefor,  and  make  report  of  their 
doings,  in  writing,  to  said  court. 

Sec.  6.  Upon  the  return  of  said  report  to  said  court,  any 
person  or  persons  interested  therein,  may  object  to  the  ac- 
ceptance of  the  same  for  any  irregularity  or  improper  con- 


FINANCE    AND    LOANS.  95 

duct,  and  the  court  may  for  such  cause  set  aside  such  report, 
and  order  a  rehearing  before  another  committee,  but  if  said  ponTna"?'' "^ '*"" 
court  accept  and  establish  the  same  it  shall  be  final  and  con- 
clusive in  the  matter.     And  whenever  the  amount  of  com- 
pensation so  determined,  shall  have  been  paid  to  the  Hartford  

Bridge  Company,  or  deposited  by  said  board  of  managers  po*sSn  oMge 
with  the  clerk  of  said  court  for  the  use  of  said  bridge  com- 1^  P^^id'^o^cLTosued! 
pany,  said  board  of  managers  may  take  possession  of  said 
bridge  and  road   and  throw  the   same   open   to  free  public 
travel. 

Approved  July  9,  1869. 


XIV. 

Section    1.      The   treasurer   of   every   county,  city,  and  ^""'f T' '"'^^''^j*- 

•/  J  '  J  1     ^  ness  to  be  reported. 

borough,  and  the  first  selectman  of  every  town  shall,  on  the  ''•^•■^^^^■p-'^^- 
second  Monday  of  October,  1880,  and  in  every  fourth  year 
thereafter,  make  and  return  to  the  comptroller  of  public 
accounts,  a  clear  and  accurate  statement,  under  oath,  of  all 
he  items  constituting  the  particulars  of  the  total  indebtedness 
of  such  county,  city,  borough,  or  town,  on  the  first  day  of 
October  next  preceding  such  return,  the  purpose  and  object 
for,  and  the  year  in  which  such  indebtedness  was  incurred,  the 
form  in  which  the  same  exists,  and  when  payable,  the  amount 
actually  raised  by  such  corporation  during  the  four  years  next 
preceding  said  first  day  of  October,  by  taxation  and  by  loan, 
and  the  amount  actually  expended  during  said  period  for  in- 
terest, roads,  paupers,  salaries,  schools,  police  and  fire  depart- 
ment, and  the  rate  per  centum  of  taxes  laid  during  said 
period.  Every  such  officer  who  shall  fail  to  make  and  return 
such  statement  within  one  month  after  the  time  limited  b}- 
this  act,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  treasurer  of  the  state  one 
hundred  dollars,  which  may  be  sued  for  and  recovered  in  the 
name  of  said  treasurer. 

Sec.  2.     The  comptroller  shall,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  R«p«'-t' f« ''^' 'JJ"- 

^  '  •/  tri  billed. 

September,  1880,  and  in  every  fourth  year  thereafter,  furnish 
to  said  officers  printed  blanks,  adapted  to  such  returns,  and 
shall  without  delay  publish  said  returns,  so  as  to  exhibit  the 


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Repeal. 


HIGHWAYS   AND    PUBLIC   WORKS. 


I 


same  by  counties,  and  show  their  several  aggregates,  and  send 
one  copy  thereof  to  the  town  clerk,  the  mayor,  and  chief 
burgess  of  every  town,  city  and  borough,  which  shall  be 
kept  on  file  in  the  office  of  such  officer,  and  at  all  times  open 
to  public  inspection. 

Sec.  3.  Chapter  thirty  of  the  public  acts  passed  in  January 
session,  A.  D.  1877,  is  hereby  repealed. 

Approved,  March  28,  1879. 


HIGHWAYS  AND  PUBLIC  WOEKS. 


I. 

Powers  of  Common  Council:  sub- 

XVII. 

stitute  for  section  vii.  of  original 

XVIII. 

charter. 

XIX. 

II. 

Public  record  of  highways. 

XX. 

III. 

Diversion    of    non-navigable 

streams. 

XXI. 

IV. 

Control  of  dams  and  streams. 

v. 

Drainage  of  highways. 

xxn. 

VI. 

Railroad  crossings. 

VII. 

Same  subject. 

XXIII. 

VIII. 

Same  subject. 

IX. 

Lay-out  of  highway  near  railroad. 

XXIV. 

X. 

Assessment  on  land  not  abutting. 

XI. 

Assessment  on  land  of  deceased 

XXV. 

persons. 

XXVI. 

XII. 

Assessment  for  expense  of  work 

to  be  made  before  construction. 

XXVII. 

XIII. 

Assessment,  when  collectible. 

XXVIII. 

XIV. 

Appeals  from  appraisals  and  as- 

XXIX. 

sessments. 

XXX. 

XV. 

Right  of  appeal. 

XVI. 

Completion  of  pending  appeals  by 
successor  of  judge. 

Revision  of  decision  of  judge. 

Same  subject. 

Correction  of  clerical  errors. 

Benefits  a  set-oft'  against  dam- 
ages. 

Damages  for  highway  discon- 
tinued before  being  worked. 

Damages  and  benefits  by 
change  of  grade. 

Liability  for  defective  high- 
ways. 

Liability  of  property  owners 
for  obstructions. 

Coasting  on  highways. 

Obstruction  of  highway  near 
bridge  by  trains. 

Gates,  etc.,  at  crossings. 

Switching  across  highways. 

Locomotive  whistling. 

Disturbance  of  surface  of 
highway. 


I. 

Powers  of  conrt  of       Section  1.     Thc  Coiu't  of  Comnion  Council  of  the  City  of 

Common  Council. 

s.A.,voi.6,p.  314.  jj^^.j.!"^^.^  gjj^U  ij^ye  exclusive  power  to  lay  out,*  make,  and 


»  Powers  granted  de  lay-out  of  highways,  etc.,  constitutional.  Nichols  v.  Bridge- 
port, 23  Conn.,  189. 

No  obligation  on  the  city  to  lay  out,  construct  and  repair  highways,  except  as 
imposed  by  statute.    Stonington  v.  States  et  aL,  31  Conn.,  213. 


HIGHWAYS    AND    PUBLIC    WORKS.  97 

establish,  within   said   city,   new   highways,"  streets,  public  S'ghways. 
parks,  and  walks,"  whenever  they  deem  it  for  the  public  good 
to  do  so,  or  to  alter  the  lines  and  location  of  those  already 
laid  out,  and  discontinue  the  same  and  exchange  highways 
for  highw^ays,  or  sell  highways  for  the  purpose  of  purchasing 
other  highways,  to  establish  building  lines  on  the  land  of  pro-  Buiwing  unes. 
prietors  adjoining  any  street,  highway,  alley,  park  or  walk, 
within  said  city,  between  which  and  such  street,  highway, 
alley,  park,  or  walk,  no  building  or  part  of  a  building,  or 
appurtenance  thereof,  shall  be  set  up  or  erected.     Also,  to 
order  and  establish  openings  between  buildings,  for  the  pur-  openings. 
pose  of  free  circulation  of  air  for  the  benefit  of  the  public 
health ;    to   cause  low   grounds   where   water   at   any  time  ^'>'^  ia»'*^- 
becomes  stagnant,  to  be  raised,  filled  up,  or  drained.     Also,  to 
lay  out,  construct,  and  alter  public  sewers'^  through  the  high-  hewers. 
ways,  streets  (including  turnpike  roads),  alleys,  and  public 
grounds  within  said  city,  and  also  through  the  j)rivate  enclos- 
ures within  the  same;  to  order  and  construct  and  alter  side- 
walks, gutters,  and  crosswalks,  in  and  upon  all   highways,  swewaiks,  etc. 
streets  (including  turnpike  roads),  alleys,  and  public  grounds, 
within  said  city,  according  to  the  grade  and  plan,  of  such 
materials  as  shall  be  designated  by  said  court.    Also  to  estab- 


Deflnition  of  phrase  " laying  out."    Wolcott  v.  Pond  et  al,  19  Conn.,  597. 

Land  once  taken  for  public  use  cannot  be  taken  for  another.  Evergreen  Cemetery- 
Association  V.  New  Haven,  43  Conn.,  234;  Bridgeport  v.  New  York  and  New  Haven 
Railroad  Company,  36  Conn.,  255. 

Various  points  as  to  lay-out.  Hawley  v.  Harrall,  19  Conn.,  142;  Townsend  v. 
Hoyle,  20  Conn.,  1;  Clark  v.  Middlebury,  47  Conn.,  331;  Ives  v.  East  Haven,  48 
Conn.,  272;  Parrott  v.  Bridgeport,  44  Conn.,  180. 

b  Highways  by  dedication.  Canday  v.  Lambert,  2  Root,  173 ;  Sherwood  v.  Weston, 
18  Conn.,  32;  Curtiss  v.  Hoyt,  19  Conn.,  154;  Noyes  v.  Ward,  19  Conn.,  250;  Green  v. 
Canaan,  29  Conn.,  157;  Riley  v.  Hammel,  38  Conn.,  574;  Williams  v.  New  York  and 
New  Haven  Railroad  Company,  39  Conn.,  509;  Hamlin  v.  Norwich,  40  Conn.,  13; 
Derby  v.  Ailing,  40  Conn.,  410;  Hall  v.  Meriden,  48  Conn.,  416. 

Giving  a  deed  of  land  to  city  for  a  highway  and  acceptance  of  deed,  does  not 
constitute  the  land  a  street.  New  York  and  New  Haven  Railroad  Company  v.  New 
Haven,  46  Conn.,  257. 

A  highway  dedicated  to  city  which  It  is  its  duty  to  repair,  cannot  be  dedicated  by 
the  city  to  the  town.    Guthrie  v.  New  Haven,  31  Conn.,  308. 

"The  inner  railing  of  sidewalk  is  no  part  of  the  sidewalk,  and  without  the  juris- 
diction of  Common  Council.    Williams  v.  Brace,  5  Conn.,  190. 

<iThe  City  of  Hartford  has  power  under  the  general  authority  to  make  and  main- 
tain highways,  to  make  common  sewers  under  the  highways.  Cone  v.  Hartford,  28 
Conn.,  363. 


98 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS. 


Fire  districts. 


lish  and  designate  districts  of  said  city,  within  which  it  shall 
not  be  lawful  to  erect,  enlarge,  or  elevate,  or  into  or  within 
which  it  shall  not  be  lawful  to  remove  any  wooden  building, 
except  by  license  of  said  court.     Also,  to  cause  to  be  made, 

Repair  of  highways,  and  repaired,*"  and  altered,  highways,  streets,  parks,  and  pub- 
lic grounds  within  said  city,  and  sidewalks,  and  crosswalks, 
upon  said  highways,  streets,  or  public  grounds ;  to  assume  for 
said  city  the  duty  of  making  and  repairing  any  part  of  any 

Taxes.  tumpikc  company's  road  within  said  city.     Also  to  lay  taxes 

on  the  polls  and  ratable  estate  within  said  city,  sufficient  to 
defray  all  lawful  expenses  incurred  by  said  city,  according  to 
the  corporate  poAvers  hereby  granted  or  recognized;  and 
whenever  any  public  work  (including  dykes),  shall  have  been 
lawfully  laid  out  or  altered  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council, 
said  court  may  assess  *^  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the  expense 


Assessment  for 
public  works. 


•^Por  decisions  de  repairs  and  defects,  see  p.  10. 

^Legislature  has  power  to  authorize  municipal  corporations  to  assess  benefits  for 
local  improvements.    Nichols  v.  Bridgeport,  23  Conn.,  189. 

Such  assessments  are  not  "  taxes"  within  the  meaning  of  our  statutes.  Bridgeport 
V.  New  York  and  New  Haven  Railroad  Company,  36  Conn.,  255. 

Macadamizing  street  is  a  work  of  repairs,  and  not  a  public  improvement  for  which 
benefits  may  be  assessed.    New  Haven  v.  Whitney,  36  Conn.,  373. 

Under  the  charter  of  City  of  Hartford,  the  whole  expense  of  a  sewer  may  be 
assessed  upon  the  parties  especially  benefited  thereby.  Clapp  v.  Hariford,  35 
Conn.,  66. 

Under  the  charter  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  an  ordinance  requiring  the  whole 
expense  of  sewers  to  be  assessed  upon  the  parties  especially  benefited  is  valid,  in 
all  cases  where  the  benefits  equal  the  assessments.  Park  Ecclesiastical  Society  v. 
Hartford,  47  Conn.,  89. 

An  assessment  for  the  entire  cost  of  a  sewer  is  valid,  where  the  benefits  are  equal 
to  the  assessments,  although  the  sewer  be  larger  than  the  present  needs  of  the  sec- 
tion require  and  it  be  intended  to  serve  other  incidental  purposes  of  drainage. 
Hungerford  v.  Hartford,  39  Conn.,  279. 

If  land  dedicated  to  city  is  accepted  and  worked  no  formal  lay-out  is  necessary 
as  prerequisite  to  assessment.    Meriden  v.  Camp,  46  Conn.,  284, 

The  benefits  and  damages  to  be  considered  are  tho^e  which  are  direct  and  imme- 
diate. Clark  V.  Saybrook,  21  Conn.,  313;  Hartford  v.  West  Middle  School  District,  45 
Conn.,  462. 

As  to  what  must  be  considered  in  the  assessment  of  benefits.  Clapp  v.  Hartford, 
35  Conn.,  66. 

As  to  measure  of  benefits.  Clapp  v.  Hartford,  35  Conn.,  66;  Bowditch  v.  New 
Haven,  40  Conn.,  503. 

What  property  may  be  assessed :  Horse  railroad  track ;  New  Haven  v.  Fair  Haven 
and  Westville  Railroad  Company,  38  Conn.,  422.  Vacant  lot  in  full;  Clapp  v.  Hart- 
ford, 35  Conn.,  66,  Shallow  lot;  Terry  v.  Hartford,  39  Conn.,  286.  Lands  not  abutting ; 
same.  Railroad  lands  not  permanently  appropriated  for  railroad  uses;  New  York, 
New  Haven  and  Hartford  Railroad  Company  v.  New  Britain,  49  Conn.,  40.  Land 
already  sufficiently  sewered  and  assessed  therefor;  Park  Ecclesiastical  Society  v.. 
Hartford,  47  Conn.,  89. 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS.  99 

of   laying    out,    altering,    and    making    such    public   work 
(including    highways,   streets,    sidewalks,    gutters,    sewers, 
parks,  public  walks,  openings  between  buildings,  the  estab- 
lishment of  building  lines,  sidewalks,  and  crosswalks,  drain- 
ing low  grounds,  or  filling  up  the  same),  upon  the  persons        ,    _____ 
whose  property  is,  in  the  judgment  of  said  Court  of  Com- 
mon Council,  specially  benefited^  thereby,  and  estimate  the 
proportion  of  such  expense  which  said  persons  shall  respect- 
ively defray,  and  enforce  the  collection  of  the  same,  or  may, 
if  they  deem  proper,  assess  the  expense  of  any  such  public  ^'XTiiraft^r^ed'^ 
work  directly  upon  land  benefited  thereby,  describing  said 
land  in  said  assessments,  by  metes  and  bounds,  and  specifying 
the  amounts  assessed  on  each  j>iece  so  described,  respectively, 
which  said  land  on  default  of  payment  of  said  assessment  as^sessmlut^ 
within  six  months  after  public  notice  thereof  shall  have  been 
given,  shall  be  liable  to  be  sold  for  the  payment  of  the  same  ; 
and  said  court  shall  prescribe  by  ordinance  of  [the]  manner 
of  giving  notice  of  said  assessment,  and  the  time,  manner, 
and  place  of  sale  of  said  land :  provided  always^  that  before  owner^afJ ''*" 
taking  any  land  or  private  property  for  any  of  the  public  ^'""*^*''' 
uses   aforesaid,  said   court   shall   agree  with   the   owner  or 
owners  thereof  as  to  the  damage  done  thereby,  or  shall  cause 
ito  be  made,  a  fair  aj)praisal  of  such  damage,  which  shall  be  ^PPgreeme'nl'"'" 
the  actual  damage  done  to  the  property  of  such  owner  or 
owners,^  by  taking  such  land  or  private  property,  without 
deducting  therefrom  an}^  benefits  on  account  of  such  public  Measure  oi  damage. 
work,  and  shall  pay  to  or  deposit  the  same  for  the  benefit  of 
such  owner  or  owners.     And  provided  further,  that  it  shall  be  ^l^l^^'-^"'^^'^' 
the  duty  of  said  court  to  enact  ordinances,  containing  suit- 

What  property  may  not  be  assessed :  School  property  used  solely  for  school  pur- 
poses cannot  be  assessed  for  highway;  Hartford  v.  West  Middle  School  District,  45 
Conn.,  462.  Eailroad  depot  cannot  be  assessed  for  paving  highway  leading  thereto; 
New  York  and  New  Haven  Railroad  Company  v.  New  Haven,  42  Conn.,  279.  Rail- 
road tracks  cannot  be  assessed  for  highway ;  Bridgeport  v.  New  York  and  New  Haven 
Railroad  Company,  36  Conn.,  255. 

g Damages  and  benefits  should  be  separately  estimated;  Terry  v.  Hartford,  39 
Conn.,  286.  See  in  this  connection  Nicholson  v.  New  York  and  New  Haven  Railroad 
Company,  22  Conn.,  74;  Nichols  v.  Bridgeport,  23  Conn.,  189;  Trinity  College  v.  Hart- 
ford, 32  Conn.,  452. 

J^The  mortgagee  is  not  the  owner  of  property  and  is  not  entitled  to  compensation. 
Norwich  v.  Hubbard  et  al,  22  Conn.,  587;  Whiting  v.  New  Haven,  45  Conn.,  303. 


100 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS. 


Commissioners  of 
relief;  how  ap- 
pointed. 


Term  of  office,  and 
duties  of. 


Appeals  to,  final. 


Appeals,  when 
allowed. 


Commissioners' 
meetings ;  how 
ordered. 


Reapportionment ; 
how  made. 


Section  vii.  of 
charter  repealed. 


Pending  suits. 


able  provision  for  giving  notice*  to  all  persons  interested  in 
any  property  so  taken,  of  tlie  proceedings  of  said  court  in 
that  behalf,  and  of  the  appraisal  of  damages. 

Sec.  2.  Said  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  appoint,  by 
concurrent  vote  of  both  boards,  commissioners  of  relief,  one 
from  each  ward  of  said  city,  who  shall  be  freeholders,  and 
not  members  of  said  court,  who  shall  severally  hold  office 
during  the  pleasure  thereof,  and  shall  be  sworn  to  the  faith- 
ful and  impartial  discharge  of  their  official  duty;  and  said 
commissioners  shall  hear  and  determine  all  appeals  from 
appraisals  of  damages  or  assessments  of  benefits  as  herein- 
after provided,  and  their  jurisdiction  of  such  appeal  shall  be 
final.^ 

Sec.  3.  An  appeal  shall  be  allowed  to  any  person  aggrieved 
by  any  appraisal  of  damages  or  assessment  of  benefits  to  said 
commissioners  of  relief  within  thirty  days  after  public  notice 
shall  be  given  of  such  appraisal  or  assessment,  and  said  com- 
missioners may  reassess  said  damages  or  benefits.  And  said 
Court  of  Common  Council  shall  prescribe  by  ordinance  the 
times  and  place  of  the  meetings  of  said  commissioners,  and 
the  form  and  mode  of  service  of  said  appeals.^ 

Sec.  4.  If  on  any  appeal  from  an  assessment  of  benefits 
the  assessment  of  the  appellant  is  reduced,  said  commissioners 
of  relief  may,  thereupon,  if  they  think  proper,  proceed  to  re- 
apportion the  whole  of  said  assessment  appealed  from,  among 
the  persons  whose  property  is  so  specially  benefited  thereby, 
so  that  no  portion  of  the  expense  of  such  public  work  shall, 
by  reason  of  said  appeal,  bo  thrown  upon  said  city.^ 

Sec.  5.  Section  seven  of  "An  Act  to  alter  the  charter  of 
the  City  of  Hartford,  and  to  combine  sundry  public  statutes 
relating  thereto,"  approved  June  24,  1859,  is  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  6.     This  act  shall  affect  no  suit  now  pending. 

Approved,  July  24,  1867. 


I 


'A  party  notified  to  appear  before  a  board  of  assessment  is  bound  to  take  notice 
of  all  subsequent  proceedings  in  the  matter.  Gilbert  v.  New  Haven,  39  Conn.,  467; 
Bridgeport  v.  Giddings  et  al.,  43  Conn.,  304. 


'Amended.    Seexiv. 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS.  101 

II. 

Whenever  a  public  highway  or  street  is  laid  out,  extended,  ^fsSnuancTof"' 
straightened,  widened,  or  discontinued,  the  Court  of  Common  ^'^^^ed.^o,  p.  540. 
Council  in  cities,  the  warden  and  burgesses  in  boroughs,  and 

the  board  of  selectmen  in  towns  and  parts  of  towns  not  

within  the  limits  of  any  city  or  borough,  shall  cause  to  be 
made  a  written  description  of  each  piece  or  parcel  of  land 
taken  from  or  annexed  to  the  lands  of  adjoining  proprietors, 
and  shall  cause  the  same  to  be  recorded  in  the  land  records  of 
the  town  or  city  in  which  the  said  highway  or  street  is 
situated. 

Approved,  March  25,  1880. 

III. 

Section  1.  Whenever  it  shall  be  necessary  for  thd  proper  fti.^«^™„f 
construction  of  any  bridge,  sewer,  culvert,  highway,  embank-  s^aTvout,  p.778. 
ment,  or  other  public  work  in  the  City  of  Hartford,  or  for 
the  protection  and  security  of  any  such  public  work  already 
constructed,  it  shall  be  laAvful  for  the  Court  of  Common 
Council  of  said  city  to  direct,  and  for  the  board  of  street 
^commissioners  of  said  city  to  cause  any  stream  or  water- 
course, not  navigable  within  the  limits  of  said  city,  to  bo 
changed  and  diverted  from  its  natural  or  present  channel 
into  a  new  or  different  channel. 

Sec.  2.  Before  causing  any  stream  or  watercourse  to  be  eompens»tion. 
diverted,  as  provided  in  the  first  section  of  this  act,  the  said 
board  of  street  commissioners  shall  agree  with  the  owner  or 
owners  of  any  property  or  franchise,  which  may  be  required 
for  the  said  purpose,  as  to  the  amount  of  compensation  oi* 
damage  to  be  paid  to  the  said  owner  or  owners  for  the  same ; 
and  in  case  of  disagreement  between  said  board  and  any  such 
owner  or  owners,  as  to  the  amount  of  such  damage  or  com- 
pensation, then  the  same  shall  be  appraised  in  the  same  man- 
ner as  damages  are  now  appraised  for  the  laying  out  of  high- 
ways in  said  city;  and  any  person  aggrieved  by  said  ap- 
praisal, shall  have  the  same  right  of  appeal  as  is  now  had  by 


102 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS. 


parties  aggrieved  by  the  appraisal  of  damages  in  laying  out 
highways  in  said  city. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to  impose 
any  new  liability  for  damages  upon  the  said  city  for  any 
change  in  any  watercourse,  indirectly  or  necessarily,  result- 
ing from  the  legal  lay-out  and  construction  of  any  public 
work  already  built  or  hereafter  to  be  built. 

Approved,  July  17,  1874. 


Power  over  streams, 

dams,  etc.,  for 

sewerage  aud 

health. 

S.  A.,  1882,  p.  419. 


Survey  and 
estimates. 


lY. 

Section  1.  The  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford  are  hereby  authorized,  whenever  in  their  opinion 
the  public  health  or  the  proper  sewerage  of  said  city  shall 
require  such  action,  to  take,  occupy,  and  appropriate,  in  such 
manner  as  they  shall  from  time  to  time  deem  expedient,  any 
stream  or  part  of  a  stream,  natural  or  artificial,  running  in  or 
through  said  city,  and  to  straighten,  deepen,  or  lower  the 
same,  or  lower,  alter,  or  remove  any  or  all  walls,  dams, 
flumes,  or  other  obstruction  to  the  free  and  healthy  flow  of 
such  stream  or  part  of  a  stream,  or  raise  any  of  said  dams  or 
build  and  maintain  other  dams  where  the  public  health  or 
convenience  may  require,  or  to  cover  any  such  stream  or  part 
thereof  by  arches,  culverts,  or  other  structures,  or  to  divert 
the  water  from  such  stream  or  part  thereof  and  cause  it  to 
flow  through  a  sewer  or  other  aqueduct  built  in  and  upon  the 
bed  of  such  stream,  or  laid  in  the  earth  in  or  near  either  bank 
thereof,  or  to  remove  or  cause  to  be  removed  or  altered  any 
or  all  structures  which  at  any  season  of  the  year  cause  the 
accumulation  of  stagnant  water,  or  interrupt  in  any  manner 
the  free  and  healthy  flow  of  any  part  of  said  stream. 

Sec.  2.  Whenever  said  Court  of  Common  Council  shall 
take  action  under  the  foregoing  power,  the  vote  or  resolution 
proposing  said  improvement  shall  be  referred  to  the  board  of 
street  commissioners  of  said  city,  who  shall  prepare  a  de- 
scriptive survey  of  the  improvement  proposed,  with  a  careful 
estimate  of  the  cost  of  completing  the  same,  and  agree  if 
possible  with  the  parties  interested  upon  the  damages  and 
special  benefits  on  account  of  such  improvement.     They  shall 


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m 


give  notice  ten  days  prior  to  the  time  appointed  in  said  notice  Notices. 

for  said  hearing  in  two  daily  newspapers  published  in  said 

city,  of  a  time  and  place  for  meeting  all  parties  interested  in 

said  improvement,  and  if  at  such  meeting  no  agreement  can  rtifma^s!'"'' *** 

be  made,  said  city  may  proceed  in  the  manner  provided  in  the         "^ 

next  succeeding  section.  But  if  such  agreement  shall  be 
made  by  said  board  and  ratified  by  said  Common  Council,  the 
sums  agreed  upon  having  been  paid  to  the  parties  entitled 
thereto,  or  deposited  to  their  credit  in  the  city  treasury,  said 
city  may  proceed  with  and  complete  said  improvement,  and 
do  all  things  necessary  or  convenient  for  that  purpose  without 
further  liability. 

Sec.  3.     If  said  board  of  street  commissioners  shall  be  una-  condemnation  and 

appraisal. 

ble  to  agree  with  the  parties  interested  upon  the  damages  or 
benefits  to  be  paid  on  account  of  such  improvement,  the 
Superior  Court  for  Hartford  county  may,  on  application  of 
said  city,  after  causing  such  notice  to  be  given  of  the  pen- 
dency of  such  application  as  said  court  shall  order,  appoint 
three  judicious  and  disinterested  freeholders  of  the  county  of 
Hartford  to  estimate  the  damages  and  benefits  resulting  from 
said  improvement;  and  said  committee  having  been  duly 
sworn,  and  having  given  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  their 
meeting  for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  by  publishing  the  same  not 
ss  than  three  times  in  two  newspapers  published  daily  in 
aid  city  at  least  ten  days  prior  to  said  meeting,  shall  meet  at 
the  time  and  place  designated,  and  having  heard  all  parties 
in  interest  who  shall  appear  before  them,  shall  determine 
what  parties  will  be  damaged  by  said  improvement  in  excess 
of  special  benefits  and  the  amount  thereof;  also  what  j)arties 
owning  or  interested  in  lands,  easements,  or  franchises  within 
a  reasonable  distance  of  said  improvement  will  receive  special 
benefit  over  all  damage  and  the  amount  thereof;  and  also 
what  parties  will  receive  an  equal  amount  of  damage  and 
benefit ;  and  thereupon  said  committee  shall  report  in  writing 
to  said  court,  which  may  confirm,  correct,  alter,  or  set  aside 
said  report,  and  decide  all  questions  that  may  be  raised  in  the 
proceedings.  If  said  report  shall  be  set  aside,  said  committee, 
or  a  new  one  to  be  appointed  by  said  courtj  shall  proceed  as 


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HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS. 


Collection  of 
benefits. 


Benefits  a  lien. 


Lien  recorded. 


Notice  of  payment 
of  benefits. 


before,  and  their  report  being  finally  accepted  by  such  court 
shall  be  confirmed  by  the  order  or  decree  of  said  court ;  and 
said  report  and  order  or  decree  shall  be  recorded  by  the  clerk 
of  the  Superior  Court  for  Hartford  county,  and  the  award  of 
damages  and  benefits  therein  contained  shall  be  final  between 
the  parties,  and  said  damages  being  paid  or  deposited  as  be- 
fore provided,  said  city  may  proceed  with  and  complete  said 
public  imj^rovement,  and  do  all  acts  necessary  or  convenient 
for  that  purpose  without  further  liability. 

Sec.  4.  All  amounts  due  to  said  city  as  special  benefits 
under  the  preceding  sections,  whether  reached  by  agreement 
or  assessment,  may  be  collected  by  warrant  under  the  hand 
of  the  mayor  or  acting  mayor  of  said  city,  directed  to  the 
collector  thereof,  who  shall  enforce  the  same  in  the  same 
manner  as  tax  warrants  are  sei'ved  and  enforced.  Every 
such  amount  shall  also  be  and  remain  a  lien  ujDon  the  land  or 
other  property  on  account  of  which  it  was  assessed,  which 
said  lien  shall  commence  and  attach  to  said  land  from  the 
time  the  Common  Council  shall  take  action,  laying  out  or 
ordering  said  improvement :  provided  that  the  same  shall  not 
remain  a  lien  thereon  for  a  longer  period  than  three  months 
after  the  final  completion  of  said  work  or  improvement, 
unless  the  board  of  street  commissioners  shall  within  that 
time  lodge  with  the  town  clerk  of  the  town  of  Hartford,  for 
record,  a  certificate  signed  by  the  clerk  of  said  board,  describ- 
ing the  premises,  the  amount  assessed,  and  the  improvement 
for  which  it  was  assessed. 

Sec.  5.  Upon  the  completion  of  said  work  or  improve- 
ment, the  said  board  of  street  commissioners  shall  give  notice 
thereof,  and  that  said  benefits  are  due  and  payable,  by  publi- 
cation twice  in  two  daily  newspapers  published  in  said  city, 
and  all  benefits  assessed  thereon  shall  be  immediately  due 
and  payable.  If  the  actual  cost  of  the  construction  of  such 
improvement  or  public  work  shall  be  less  than  the  sum 
assessed  upon  the  parties  benefited,  each  of  the  parties  so 
assessed  shall  be  entitled  to  a  proportionate  deduction  from 
his  assessment. 


HIGHWAYS   AND    PUBLIC    WORKS.  105 

Sec.  6.     This  act  shall  be  a  public  act,  and  shall  take  effect 
from  and  after  its  passage. 
Approved,  March  22,  1882. 

y. 

Section  1.     Persons  authorized  to  construct  or  to  repair  Drainage  or 

-"•  highways. 

highways  may  make  or  clear  any  watercourse  or  place  for  ^-  ^■'  ^'^^^'  "^^  ^*' 

draining  off  the  water  therefrom  into  or  through  any  person's 

land  so  far  as  necessary  to  drain  off  such  water ;  and  when  it 

shall  be  necessary  to  make  any  drain  upon  or  through  any 

person's  land  for  the  purpose  named  in  this  act  it  shall  be 

done  in  such  a  way  as  to  do  the  least  damage  to  such  land : 

provided  nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  allow 

the  drainage  of  water  from  such  highways  into  or  upon  any 

door-yard   in   front  of  any  dwelling-house  or  into  or  upon 

yards  and  inclosures   used   exclusively  for  the  storage  and 

sale  of  goods  and  merchandise. 

Sec.  2.     Section  sixteen  of  part  one,  title  sixteen,  chapter  Repeal, 
seven  (page  233),  of  the  general  statutes  is  hereby  repealed. 
^     Approved,  April  5,  1881. 

VI. 

Section  1.     Every  railroad  company  or  trustee  operating  Railroads  to  be  con- 

.structed  so  as  not  to 

any  railroad  which  may  locate  and  construct  a  railroad  across  cros^* highways  at 
any  turnpike,  highway,  or  public  street,  shall  construct  it  so       '    ''^' 
as  to  cross  over  or  under  the  same;   and  may,  under  the 
direction  of  the  railroad  commissioners,  raise  or  lower  the 
same  at  said  crossing,  or  change  the  location  thereof;  and 
shall  make  and  maintain  such  bridges,  abutments,  tunnels, 
arches,   excavations,   embankments,  and   approaches  as  the 
railroad  commissioners  shall  order,  and  the  convenience  and 
safety  of  the  public  travel  upon  said  turnpike,  highway,  or 
street  may  require ;    but  the   railroad  commissioners  may,  Kxceptions. 
upon  due  notice  to  said  company  and  to  the  selectmen  of  the 
town  or  mayor  of  the  city  in  which  said  crossing  is  situated, 
direct  such  company  or  trustee  to  construct  its  railroad  at 
such  crossing  upon  a  level  with  the  turnpike,  highway,  or 


106 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS. 


New  highway  cross^ 
ing  railroad/how 
constructed. 


ftxpense,  how 
defrayed. 


street;  but  no  such  direction  shall  be  given  in  any  case  except 
for  special  reasons  which  shall  be  recorded  in  the  records  of 
the  railroad  commissioners. 

Sec.  2.  "Whenever  a  new  highway  or  a  new  portion  of  a 
highway  shall  hereafter  be  constructed  across  a  railroad,  such 
highway  or  portion  of  highway  shall  pass  over  or  under  the 
railroad,  as  the  railroad  commissioners  shall  direct.  The 
company  or  trustee  operating  such  railroad  shall  construct 
such  crossing  to  the  approval  of  the  railroad  commissioners, 
and  may  take  land  for  the  purposes  of  this  section  in  the 
manner  now  provided  by  law  for  the  taking  of  lands  by  rail- 
road companies.  One-half  the  expense  of  such  crossing  shall 
be  borne  by  the  company  or  trustee  constructing  the  same 
and  the  other  half  thereof  shall  be  paid  to  said  company  or 
trustee  by  the  town,  city,  or  borough  which  constructs  said 
highway  or  portion  of  highway.  If  said  highway  shall  cross 
over  said  railroad  the  structure  necessary  therefor  shall  be 
maintained  and  kej^t  in  repair  by  the  party  bound  to  main- 
tain said  highway ;  but  if  it  shall  cross  under  said  railroad 
such  structure  shall  be  maintained  and  kept  in  repair  by  said 
company  or  trustee. 

Sec.  3.  The  railroad  commissioners  may,  when  in  their 
opinion  public  safety  requires  an  alteration  of  any  highway 
crossed  at  grade  by  a  railroad,  after  such  notice  as  they  shall 
deem  reasonable  to  the  company  owning  or '  oj^erating  or  the 
trustees  operating  said  railroad,  and  to  the  selectmen  of  the 
town  or  the  mayor  of  the  city  in  which  said  highway  is  so 
crossed,  and  to  the  owners  of  the  land  adjoining  said  crossing, 
order  said  company  or  said  trustees  to  make  such  alteration 
in  such  highway  as  said  commissioners  shall  find  is  practi- 
cable and  ought  to  be  made,  and  shall  determine  by  whom 
Eicpen.sc,  how  paid,  thc  expcuse  of  such  alteration  shall  be  paid ;  provided^  that  in 
no  case  shall  more  than  one-half  the  expense  be  paid  by  the 
town  or  city  aforesaid ;  and  provided  further^  that  such  altera- 
tions as  are  made  at  the  primary  instance  of  the  railroad 
commissioners,  shall  not  be  ordered  at  the  rate  of  more  than 
one  a  year  on  any  one  railroad,  except  in  the  case  of  railroads 
now  having  a  double  track  throughout  their  entire  length. 


Alteration  of  high 
way  crossed  at 
grade. 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS.  107 

Kailroad  companies  may  take  land  for  the  purposes  of  this  ^°''"  *"  ^'^'^^  ^*"**- 
section  in  the  manner  now  provided  by  law  for  the  taking  of 
lands  by  railroad  companies. 

Sec  4,     No  lands  shall  be  taken  by  any  railroad  company  SfJ'*"r'^sl'*"*^  ^**^ 

or  trustee  operating  a  railroad  for  the  purposes  mentioned  in       ^^  _     ; 

this  act,  except  such  as  are  necessary,  which  necessity  shall 
be  certified  by  the  railroad  commissioners ;  but  no  such  takr 
ing  need  be  based  upon  any  special  finding  that  public  neces. 
sity  and  convenience  require  such  taking, 

Sec,  5.     Every  railroad  company  or  trustee  operatina;  a  Pen^^Hy  f*"- nou- 

^  1         ./  X  o         oompliituce. 

railroad  which  shall  fail  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this 
act  shall  forfeit  to  the  state  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  and 
every  month  of  such  non-compliance,  in  each  and  every 
instance  of  such  non-com.pliance.  The  railroad  commissioners 
shall  give  notice  of  all  such  forfeitures  to  the  state  treasurer, 
who  shall  collect  the  same. 

Sec.  7.     Nothing  contained  in  this  act  shall  in  any  respect ^jjt^Ms^e  not 
repeal  or  modify  the  provisions  of  chapter  thirty-six  of  the 
public  acts  of  1876  (page  102).     - 

Approved,  May  3,  1883. 

YII. 

Section  1.     The  selectmen  of  any  town  within  which  a  provision  for  safety 

•^  of  highway  at 

highway  crosses  or  is  crossed  by  a  railroad,  or  the  directors  p^^rrSp-'wi. 
of  any  railroad  company  whose  road  crosses  or  is  crossed  by  a 
highway,  may  bring  their  petition  in  writing  to  the  railroad 
commissioners,  therein  alleging  that  public  safety  requires  an 
alteration  in  such  crossing,  its  approaches,  the  method  of 
crossing,  the  location  of  the  highway  or  railroad,  or  the 
removal  of  obstructions  to  the  sight  at  such  crossing,  and 
praying  that  the  same  be  ordered.  Whereupon  the  railroad 
commissioners  shall  appoint  a  time  and  place  for  hearing  the 
petition,  and  shall  give  such  notice  thereof  as  they  judge 
reasonable  to  said  selectmen,  the  railroad  company^  and  to 
the  owners  of  the  land  adjoining  such  crossing,  and  after 
such  notice  and  hearing  said  commissioners  shall  determine 
what  alterations  or  removals  shall  be  made,  by  whom  done, 
and  at  whose  expense. 


108 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS. 


Assessmeut  of 
damages. 


Appeal. 


Sec.  2.  In  case  the  party  by  whom  the  changes  are  to  be 
made  cannot  agree  with  the  owner  of  the  land  or  other  prop- 
erty to  be  removed  or  taken  under  the  said  decision  of  the 
railroad  commissioners,  the  damage  shall  be  assessed  in  the 
same  manner  as  is  provided  in  case  of  land  taken  by  railroad 
companies.  The  expense  of  such  assessment  to  be  paid  in 
the  same  manner  as  the  expense  of  the  alterations. 

Sec  3.  The  decision  of  the  commissioners  shall  be  com- 
municated to  the  selectmen,  to  the  railroad  company,  and  to 
the  owners  of  any  property  directed  to  be  removed  or  taken, 
within  twenty  days  after  final  hearing,  and  any  person  ag- 
grieved by  such  decision  may  appeal  therefrom  in  the  same 
manner  and  with  like  eifect  as  is  provided  in  the  case  of 
appeals  from  any  order  of  the  railroad  commissioners  upon 
any  proceeding  relative  to  the  location,  abandonment,  or 
changing  of  dej)ots  or  stations. 

Approved,  June  19,  1876. 


VIII. 


Provision  for  safety 
of  highway  at 
railroad  crossing. 
P.  A.,  1877,  p.  152, 


That  all  the  provisions  of  chapter  thirty-six,  entitled  "An 
Act  in  regard  to  railroad  crossings,"  of  the  acts  of  1876, 
applying  to  selectmen  of  towns,  in  regard  to  highways  cross- 
ing or  crossed  by  railroads,  be,  and  the  same  are  hereby 
extended  to  mayors  and  common  councils  of  cities,  and  to 
the  warden  and  burgesses  of  boroughs,  in  regard  to  streets 
crossing  or  crossed  by  railroads. 

Approved,  February  21,  1877. 


Highway  not  to  be 
laid  out  near  rail- 
road track. 
P.  A.,  1878,  p.  345. 


Power  of  judge  of 
Superior  Court. 


IX. 

vSection  1.  No  highway  which  does  not  cross  a  railroa 
track  shall  hereafter  be  laid  out  or  opened  to  the  public 
within  one  hundred  yards  of  any  railroad  track  unless  the 
lay-out  has  been  approved  by  a  judge  of  the  Superior  Court, 
after  notice  to  all  parties  in  interest,  and  his  written  approval 
has  been  lodged  in  the  office  of  the  town  clerk  of  the  town  in 
which  the  proposed  highway  is  situated. 

Sec.  2.     A  judge  of  the  Su]3erior  Court  shall  not  aj^prove 
the  lay-out  of  any  highway,  which  does  not  cross  a  railroad 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC    WORKS.  101) 

track,  within  one  hundred  yards  of  any  railroad  track,  unless 
he  finds  that  public  convenience  and  necessity  requires  such 
highway  to  be  within  such  distance ;  and  he  shMl  have  power 
to  require  any  town  opening  a  highway  to  the  public  within 

such  distance,  to  erect  and  maintain  such  a  fence  between        ^^^^  ^^ 

such  highway  and  the  railroad  track  as,  in  his  opinion,  the 
safety  of  the  public  may  require. 
Approved,  March  28,  1878. 

X. 

Section  1.     That  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  ^„«^??f7,;7p',^°;. 
City  of  Hartford,  by  the  board  of  street  commissioners  of  abutuug/'"' 

•^  T        J  9,.  K.,  vol.7,  p.  378. 

said  city,  may  assess  a  proportional  sum  of  the  expense  of 
laying  out,  altering,  and  making  any  highway,  street,  sewer, 
or  park,  lawfully  laid  out  or  altered,  upon  any  person  or  per- 
sons in  the  judgment  of  said  board  specially  benefited  thereby, 
whether  the  land  of  such  person  or  persons  abuts  upon  such 
highway,  street,  sewer,  or  park,  or  not. 

Sec.  2.     This  act  shall  not  affect  the  right  of  appeal  from  Rigiuof|i.peai 
the  action  of  said  board. 

Approved,  July  30,  1872. 

XL 

When  any  assessment  of  damaeres  or  benefits,  or  both,  for  i^and  belonging  to 

"J  ~  '  ■'  estate  of  deceased 

the  lay-out  or  construction  of  any  highway  or  other  public  a^'eLudT/rdam- 

ages  and  beuetlts, 

work  by  any  town,  city,  or  borough,  has  been  or  shall  be  ;;^^.'h«"t  '""'""e  '»>« 
made  upon  or  in  respect  of  any  land,  or  interest  in  land  ^'  ^"  ^'  "'^' 
which  has  belonged  to  a  deceased  person,  of  whose  estate  no 
distribution  has  been  recorded,  it  shall  be  sufficient  if  the 
report  or  schedule  of  such  assessment  describe  the  property 
assessed  as  land  of  the  estate  of  such  deceased  person,  or 
describe  his  estate  as  being  assessed  \  and  any  lien  or  claim 
upon  said  property,  resulting  from  said  assessment,  otherwise 
legal  and  formal,  may  be  foreclosed  or  otherwise  enforced 
against  said  property,  or  the  amount  of  said  assessment  col- 
lected from  any  persons  claiming  said  land  under  the  title  of 
such  deceased  person. 


110 


Cost  of  improve- 
ment to  be  ascer- 
tained and  assessed 
before  lay-out. 
S.  A.,  vol.  8,  p.  111. 


Manner  of  assess- 
qieut. 


Notice  of  payment 
of  benefits. 


Benefits  a  lien. 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS. 
XII. 

Section  1.  Before  any  public  work  or  improvement,  for 
the  cost  of  which  the  City  of  Hartford  under  its  charter  may 
assess  benefits,  shall  be  laid  out  or  constructed,  the  cost  of 
the  same,  including  damages  to  be  paid,  shall  be  ascertained 
by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  said  city,  and  all  benefits 
to  be  paid  by  the  persons  benefited  thereby,  shall  be  ascer- 
tained as  follows:  The  vote  or  resolution  proposing  the  lay- 
ing ojit  or  construction  of  such  work  or  improvement  shall 
be,  by  said  Court  of  Common  Council,  referred  to  the  board 
of  street  commissioners  of  said  city,  who  shall  first  estimate 
the  cost  of  the  construction  of  such  work  or  improvement, 
and  shall  also  appraise  the  damages  to  be  paid  to  any  person 
for  land,  or  any  interest  therein,  taken  for  such  improvement, 
and  shall  also  assess  the  said  cost  of  construction,  and  the 
amount  of  said  damages  upon  the  persons  benefited  thereby 
in  the  manner  now  provided  by  the  charter  and  ordinances 
of  said  city,  and  all  a2>peals  therefrom  shall  be  taken,  and  all 
proceedings  had  thereon,  as  now  by  law  provided.  Upon  the 
completion  of  such  proceedings  the  board  of  street  commis- 
sioners shall  rej)ort  the  same  to  said  Court  of  Common  Coun- 
cil with  their  recommendations,  and  said  Court  of  Common 
Council  may  thereupon  direct  the  lay-out  or  construction  of 
such  work  or  improvement  at  its  discretion. 

Sec.  2.  Upon  the  final  lay-out  or  completion  of  the  con- 
struction of  any  such  public  work,  the  board  of  street  com- 
missioners shall  give  notice  thereof,  and  that  said  benefits  are 
due  and  payable,  by  publication  twice  in  two  daily  newspa- 
pers published  in  said  city,  and  all  benefits  assessed  therefor 
shall  be  immediately  due  and  payable.  If  the  actual  cost  of 
the  construction  of  any  public  work  shall  be  less  than  the 
sum  estimated  by  the  board  of  street  commissioners  and 
assessed  upon  the  parties  benefited,  each  of  the  parties  so 
assessed  shall  be  entitled  to  a  proportionate  deduction  from 
his  assessment.  Said  benefits  shall  be  a  lien  upon  the  land  on 
account  of  which  they  were  assessed,  which  said  lien  shall 
commence  and  attach  to  said  land  from  the  time  of  the  pas- 
sage by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  vote  laying  out 


HIGHWAYS   AND    PUBLIC   WORKS.  Ill 

or  ordering  the  construction  of  said  work :  provided,  that  the  Lien  recorded. 
same  shall  not  remain  a  lien  thereon  for  a  longer  period  than 
three  months  from  the  final  lay-out,  or  completion  of  such 
work  or  improvement,  unless  the  board  of  street  commis- 
sioners shall  within  that  time  lodge  with  the  town  clerk  of  

the  town  of  Hartford  for  record,  a  certificate,  signed  by  the 
clerk  of  said  board,  describing  the   premises,  the   amount 
assessed,  and  the  improvement  for  which  it  was  assessed. 
Approved,  March  19,  1877. 

XIII. 

Whenever  any  assessment  has  been  or  shall  hereafter  be  Assessment  uen  nor 

•^  interest  thereon  to 

laid  by  any  town,  city,  borough,  or  other  municipal  corpora-  comp'euonof""*'' 

work,  etc. 

tion,  upon  private  property  benefited  by  any  public  work  or  pa.,  i^as,  p.28i. 
improvement,  for  the  expense  of  such  public  work  or  im- 
provement, or  for  benefits  accruing  therefrom,  and  a  certifi- 
cate of  lien  upon  such  property  has  been  or  shall  be  lodged 
for  record  with  the  town  clerk,  neither  the  principal  of  such 
assessment  nor  any  interest  thereon  shall  be  collectible  by 
such  municipality  until  such  public  work  or  improvement 
shall  have  been  completed  and  the  fact  of  such  completion 
recorded  on  the  record  books  of  such  municipality  by  order 
of  the  board  or  officers  by  whom  such  work  or  improvement 
was  ordered. 

»  Approved,  April  26,  1883. 
XIV. 
•  Section  1.     All  appeals  hereafter  taken  from  any  appraisal  Appeals  from  ap- 

./        X  i  praisals  and  assess- 

of  damages  or  assessment  of  benefits  made  by  the  board  of  "ade!' *"''''*'"' 
street  commissioners  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  shall  be  to  the   "  "''""' '" 
judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  the  county  of  Hart- 
ford.^ 

"The  judge  takes  Judicial  notice  of  the  charter  and  its  provisions.  Clapp  v. 
Hartford,  35  Conn.,  66.  That  he  adopts  a  different  rule  of  apportionment  than  that 
uniformly  applied  by  the  Common  Council  is  no  error  unle  s  the  rule  itself  is  un- 
just.  Same. 

If  an  undistinguishable  part  of  an  assessment  for  benefits  be  void  the  whole  is 
void.    Bridgeport  v.  New  York  and  New  Haven  Railroad  Company,  86  Conn.,  255. 

On  an  appeal  from  an  assessment  of  benefits  for  altering  highway  the  appellant 


112 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC    WORKS. 


Joinder  in  appeal : 
all  constitute  one 
cause. 


Appeals ; 
taken. 


Heard  by  judge  or 
committee. 


Reapportionment. 


Sec.  2.  As  many  of  the  parties  interested  as  may  choose 
to  do  so,  may  join  in  such  appeal;  and,  when  separate  appeals 
are  taken  by  different  parties  from  one  assessment  and  ap- 
praisal, all  such  appeals  shall  be  heard  and  tried  as  one 
cause.'' 

Sec.  3.  Aj^peals  may  be  taken  from  the  assessment  of 
benefits  only,  but,  if  taken  from  the  appraisal  of  damages, 
shall  be  from  the  said  appraisal  and  also  from  the  assessment 
of  benefits  made  at  the  same  time  and  for  the  same  public 
work.  Such  appeals  shall  be  taken  within  ten  days  after 
public  notice  shall  be  given  of  such  appraisal  or  assessment, 
and  shall  be  by  a  suitable  petition  in  writing,  setting  forth 
the  whole  of  said  assessment  or  appraisal  and  assessment 
appealed  from,  and  asking  for  a  reappraisal  and  reassessment, 
or  for  a  reassessment  only,  with  a  citation  attached  thereto, 
signed  by  any  authority  authorized  to  sign  writs,  and  return- 
able before  said  judge  at  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  on  the 
day  three  weeks  subsequent  to  the  day  on  which  public 
notice  of  said  appraisal  shall  have  been  given ;  and  said  cita- 
tion shall  be  served  upon  the  clerk  of  said  city  at  least  six 
days  before  the  return  day  thereof 

Sec.  4.  Such  appeals  may  be  heard  by  said  judge,  but 
shall,  upon  the  motion  of  any  party  thereto,  or  person  inter- 
ested therein,  be  referred  to  a  committee  for  hearing. 

Sec.  5.  If,  upon  the  hearing  of  any  appeal,  the  judge  or 
committee  shall  find  cause  to  alter  said  appraisal  and  assess- 
ment, or  assessment  of  benefits  only,  then  said  judge  or  com- 
mittee shall  proceed  to  reapportion  the  whole  amount  of  the 
damages  and  benefits,  or  benefits  only,  upon  the  persons  or 
land  specially  benefited. 


cannot  claim  that  the  alteration  was  unnecessary  and  unreasonable.  Gilbert  v.  New 
Haven,  39  Conn.,  467.  Evidence  of  previous  assessments  not  admissable.  Same. 
Evidence  to  show  that  assessments  against  others  are  unreasonable  is  inadmissable. 
Same. 

Courts  will  not  consider  the  motives  of  action  on  the  part  of  city  authorities, 
provided  their  proceedings  are  regular  and  the  matter  within  their  Jurisdiction. 
Park  Ecclesiastical  Society  v.  Hartford,  47  Conn.,  89. 

Reasons  of  appeal  must  be  specified  with  as  much  particularity  as  in  bills  of 
equity.    Bowditch  v.  New  Haven,  40  Conn.,  503. 

bif  but  one  appeals,  his  assessment  only  is  brought  up  for  revision.    Clapp  v. 
Hartford,  86  Conn.,  66. 


HIGHWAYS    AND   PUBLIC   WORKS.  113 

Sec.  6.     If  the  judge  or  committee  hearing  said  appeal  Sln"reapi°o'^-'"' 

.     .  Ill  1  tionraent,  etc. 

shall  be  of  opinion  that  persons  other  than  those  who  appear 
upon  the  record  are  interested  in  the  subject-matter  of  said 
appeal,  said  judge  or  committee  shall  cause  the  appellants  to 

give  notice  of  the  pendency  of  the  proceedings  to  such  other _ 

persons ;  which  notice  shall  be  by  publication  in  one  or  more 
newspapers  published  in  said  city,  for  such  time  and  in  such 
form  as  said  judge  or  committee  shall  direct. 

Sec.  7.     Such  judge  shall  have,  for  the  purpose  of  disposing  Powers  of  judge. 
of  said  appeal,  all  the  power  of  the  Superior  Court,  and  may 
render  judgment  thereon,  and  may  tax  costs  in  favor  of  either 
party  and  issue  execution  for  said  costs,  to  be  taxed  as  upon  costs. 
civil  process  in  the  Superior  Court. 

Sec  8.     Said  judge  shall,  when  the  proceedings  in  any  case  J^f ^Tcrk!  ^*^^''' ^ 
arising  under  this  act  are  closed,  return  all  the  papers  connected 
with  the  case  to  the  clerk  of  said  city,  to  be  by  him  kept  on  file. 

Sec.  9.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage  ,•  and  all  pen-^ng  suits. 
acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith  are  hereby  re- 
pealed ;  but  this  act  shall  not  affect  any  suit  now  pending. 

Approved,  July  1,  1873. 

i  XY. 

Any  person  aggrieved  by  the  appraisal  of  damages  in  lay-  Right  of  appeal. 
ing  out  any  highway,  or  in  making  any  improvement  or  pub- 
lic work  in  any  city  (except  Bridgeport  and  Hartford)  or 
borough,  or  by  the  assessment  of  benefits  therefor,  may  ap- 
peal from  such  appraisal  or  assessment,  to  any  judge  of  the 
Superior  Court,  within  thirty  days  after  public  notice  shall 
be  given  of  such  appraisal  or  assessment,  which  appeal  shall 
be  a  written  petition  for  a  reappraisal  or  reassessment,  with 
a  citation  attached  thereto,  and  returnable  in  not  less  than 
six,  nor  more  than  twenty  days  after  its  date,  and  shall  be 
served  at  least  six  days  before  the  return  day,  upon  the  clerk 
of  such  city  or  borough. 

XYI. 

All  appeals  now  taken,  or  which  may  hereafter  be  taken  completion  of 

^  ■*■  ■  ''  pending  appeals  by 

from   any  appraisal  of  damages,   or  assessment  of  benefits  I" A!,Toir7,''p'!*^"8. 


114  HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS. 

made  by  the  board  of  street  commissioners  of  the  City  of 
Hartford,  and  the  City  of  I^ew  Britain,  to  the  judge  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  the  county  of  Hartford,  and 
which  shall  be  pending  at  the  time  of  the  completion  of  the 
term  of  service  of  such  judge,  shall  be  heard  and  disposed  of 
as  fully  and  completely  by  the  successor  of  such  judge  as  said 
appeals  might  have  been  by  the  judge  to  whom  they  were 
originally  taken. 
Approved,  June  18,  1875. 

XYII. 

Reyising decision  Whcu  jurisdlctiou,  Original  or  appellate,  over  any  subject 
R.  8..  p.  450,  §  17.  jnatter  or  proceeding,  is  or  shall  be  vested  in  a  judge  of  the 
Superior  Court,  any  party  to  such  proceeding,  who  is  ag- 
grieved by  the  decision  of  such  judge,  upon  any  question  of 
law  arising  therein,  may,  within  ten  days  after  he  or  his 
attorney  shall  have  been  notified  of  the  final  decision  or  judg- 
ment of  such  judge,  present  to  such  judge  a  motion  for  a 
new  trial,  stating  therein  said  questions  of  law,  or  a  motion  in 
error  for  questions  arising  on  the  record  of  such  proceedings ; 
and  said  judge,  if  he  shall  be  of  opinion  that  such  motion  is 
not  intended  for  delay,  and  that  the  questions  are  such  as  to 
entitle  the  party  to  a  revision  thereof,  shall  reserve  such  mo- 
tion for  a  new  trial,  for  the  opinion  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Errors  next  to  be  holden  in  the  district  or  county,  where  the 
parties,  or  any  of  them,  reside,  and  shall  allow  such  motion 
in  error,  and  transmit  such  record  to  said  Supreme  Court  of 
Errors,  in  the  manner  by  law  provided  in  the  case  of  similar 
tn  appeals  from  ap-  motious  made  iu  court :  but  in  cases  of  appeal  from  the  ap- 

praisal  of  damages  '  •'-■••  ■■■ 

ment"?""*™'"^'"*''  pralsal  of  damages  in  laying  out  any  street,  or  in  making  any 
improvement  or  public  work,  in  any  city,  village,  or  borough, 
upon  paying  to  the  person  or  persons  entitled  thereto  dam- 
ages appraised  therefor,  or  upon  depositing  the  same  in  the 
manner  provided  by  law;  and  in  cases  where  no  damages 
shall  be  appraised,  such  city,  village,  or  borough,  may  imme- 
diately proceed  to  lay  out  and  open  such  street,  or  make  and 
comj)lete  such  imj^rovement  or  public  work,  in  the  same  man- 
ner as  if  no  such  motion  had  been  made ;  and  in  proceedings 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS.  115 

on  writs  of  habeas  corpus,  the  judge  may,  at  his  discretion,  stay  of  execution. 
decline  to  order  a  stay  of  execution. 

XYIII. 

Section  1.  That  section  seventeen,  chapter  fifteen,  title  Revisjnileeiiisnor 
nineteen,  of  the  revised  statutes,  be  and  hereby  is  amended  ^■^"  '^' 
by  inserting  after  the  words  "Superior  Court,"  at  the  end  of 
the  second  line  of  said  section,  the  following:  "And  when- 
ever jurisdiction,  original  or  appellate,  over  any  subject  mat- 
ter or  proceeding  has  been  or  shall  be  vested  in  any  judge  of 
the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  or  District  Court." 

Approved,  June  22,  1876. 

XIX. 

In  all  cases  of  assessments  of  damages  or  benefits  for  the  correcuou  of  errors 

O  ia  assessments  for 

lay-out  or  construction  of  public  works,  the  Superior  Court,  R!s!?ir9M6. 
or  any  other  appellate  or  revising  tribunal  to  which  such 
cases  may  be  removed,  may,  by  reassessment  or  otherwise, 
correct  any  errors  which  may  be  shown  to  exist  in  the  report 
or  schedule  of  said  assessments,  provided  reasonable  notice 
be  given  to  any  person  not  before  said  court  or  tribunal,  who 
may  be  injuriously  aifected  by  the  correction  of  said  errors, 
to  appear  and  show  cause  why  said  correction  should  not  bo 
made ;  but  said  court  or  tribunal  may,  without  special  notice, 
fcfcorrect  manifest  clerical  errors  and  misdescriptions,  when  it 
is  evident  that  no  person  interested  has  been  misled  thereby. 

XX. 

That  in  all  cases  where  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  BeueHts  set-oir 

against  damages. 

the  City  of  Hartford  shall  have  agreed  upon  with,  or  ap-  ^'  ^"  ^"^"'  ^'  "**' 
praised  to  any  person  or  persons,  damages  for  taking  any 
land  or  private  property  for  any  public  work  in  said  city  and 
shall  also  have  assessed  betterments  on  account  of  the  -same 
public  work,  upon  the  owner  or  owners  of  such  land  or  pri- 
vate property  or  upon  such  land  or  private  property,  the 
amount  of  such  assessment  shall  be  an  off-set  against  such 
damages,  and  the  city  treasurer  may  credit  such  owner  or 


116 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS. 


Common  Council 
may  direct  con- 
cerning. 


owners  with  the  amount  of  such  assessment,  so  assessed  upon 
or  payable  by  him  or  them,  and  the  entry  of  such  credit  upon 
the  books  of  said  treasurer  shall  have  the  same  effect  as  the 
payment  to  such  owner  or  owners  so  credited  in  whole  or 
part  payment,  as  the  case  may  be,  of  th*e  sum  appraised  for 
such  damages ;  but  the  Court  of  Common  Council  may  in  any 
individual  case  where  they  see  fit  pay  the  whole  of  such  dam- 
ages and  collect  the  assessments  of  betterments  as  heretofore. 
Approved,  July  6,  1870. 


Assessment  for 
highways  discon- 
tinued before 
opened,  void. 
R.  S.,  p.  240,  §  52 


Actual  damages 
recoverable. 


XXI. 

When  any  highway,  duly  laid  out,  has  been  or  shall  be 
legally  discontinued  before  being  opened  and  worked,  no 
action  shall  be  brought  to  recover  damages  assessed  therefor, 
but  the  owner  of  the  lands  over  which  it  is  laid  out  may 
recover  of  the  town,  city,  or  borough  his  actual  damages  from 
laying  it  out.^ 


Damages  and  bene- 
fits by  change  of 
grade. 
P.  A.,  1882,  p.  158. 


XXII. 

Section  1.  When  the  owner  of  land  adjoining  a  public 
highway,  or  of  any  interest  in  such  land  shall  sustain  special 
damage  or  receive  special  benefits  to  his  property  by  reason 
of  any  change  in  the  grade  of  such  highway  by  the  town, 
city,  or  borough  in  which  such  highway  may  be  situated, 
such  town,  city,  or  borough  shall  be  liable  to  pay  to  him  the 
amount  of  such  special  damage,  and  shall  be  entitled  to 
receive  from  him  the  amount  or  value  of  such  special  bone- 
fits,  to  be  ascertained  in  the  manner  provided  for  ascertaining 
damages  and  benefits  occasioned  by  laying  out  or  altering 
highways  therein.  Whenever  special  benefits  shall  be  finally 
assessed  and  established  concerning  any  lands  or  interest 
therein,  under  the  foregoing  j^rovisions,  such  town,  city,  or 
borough  shall  have  a  lien  upon  the  lands  concerning  or  upon 
which  they  are  so  assessed,  to  be  established  and  enforced  in 
the  manner  provided  for  establishing  and  enforcing  liens  for 


iSee  Kirtland  v.  Meriden,  39  Conn.,  107;  Carson  v.  Hartford,  48  Conn,, 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS.  117 

benefits  occasioned  by  public  works  in  such  towns,  cities,  and 
boroughs.^ 

Approved,  April  6,  1882.. 

XXIII. 

Section  1.     The  party  bound  to  maintain  any  bridge  or  SeTon^roads 
road  shall  erect  and  maintain  a  sufficient  railing  or  fence  on  K?s.,'p.f32,§9. 
the  side  of  such  bridge,  and  of  such  parts  of  such  road  as 
are  so  made  or  raised  above  the  adjoining  ground  as  to  be 
unsafe  for  travel;   and  whoever  shall  suffer  damage  in  liis  J^^^wnty for 
person  or  property,  by  reason  of  the  want  of  any  such  railing 
or  fence,  may  recover  damages  from  such  party. 

Sec.   2.     Any  person   injured   in   person   or  property  by  l^f^^}^^/  f*"" 
means  of  a  defective  road  or  bridge  may  recover  damages  ^'  ^"     '  ''*  ^ " 
from  the  party  bound  to  keep  it  in  repair;  but  no  action  for 
any  such  injury  shall  be  maintained  against  any  town,  city, 
corporation,  or  borough,  unless  written  notice  of  such  injury, 
and  the  nature  and  cause  thereof,  and  of  the  time  and  place 
of  its  occurrence  shall,  within  sixty  days  thereafter,  or  if  such  Notice. 
defect  consist  of  snow  or  ice  or  both,  within  fifteen  days 
thereafter,  be  given  to  a  selectman  of  such  town  or  to  the 
clerk  of  such  city,  corporation,  or  borough;  and  when  the 
injury  is  caused  by  a  structure  legally  placed  on  such  road  by 
a  railroad  company,  it,  and  not  the  party  bound  to  keep  the 
road  in  repaii',  shall  be  liable  therefor. 

XXIY. 

When  any  person  shall  place  or  keep  building  materials,  or  Liability  of  prop- 

•^    -••  ■•■  X  O  7  erty  owner  for 

any  obstacle,  in   any  highway,   either  with   or   without   a  e'I'sTSsI  §  2. 
license  therefor  from  the  city,  town,  or  borough,  in  which 
such  highway  may  be  situated,  he  shall  pay  to  said  city, 
town,  or  borough,  all  costs  and  damages  which  it  shall  sus- 
tain, or  be  coi^ipelled  to  pay,  by  reason  thereof 

2 See  Fellowes  v.  New  Haven,  44  Conn.,  240. 


118 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS. 


Coasting  in  cities, 
boroughs,  and 
towns  regulated. 
P.  A.,  1881,  p.  42. 


Penalty. 


XXY. 

Section  1.  The  mayor  of  any  city,  the  warden  of  any 
borough,  or  the  majority  of  the  selectmen  of  any  town,  may 
limit  or  prohibit  coasting  in  the  public  streets  and  highways 
of  such  city,  borough,  or  town,  and  may  issue  an  order  stat- 
ing such  prohibition  or  the  limit  to  be  observed,  and  shall 
cause  the  same  in  case  of  cities  to  be  published  in  a  newspa- 
per of  said  city,  and  in  case  of  towns  or  boroughs  to  be 
printed  or  plainly  written  and  posted  in  at  least  ten  conspicu- 
ous places  within  the  limits  of  such  borough  or  town :  pro- 
vided, selectmen  of  towns  having  cities  or  boroughs  within 
their  limits  shall  not  exercise  such  power  within  the  limits  of 
such  cities  or  boroughs. 

Sec.  2.  Any  person  who  shall  disobey  any  order  so  issued 
and  published  or  posted  shall,  on  conviction,  be  fined  not  less 
than  two  nor  more  than  seven  dollars. 

Approved,  April  6,  1881. 


Highway  near 
bridge  in  a  city  not 
to  be  obstructed  by 
railroad  trains. 
P.  A.,  1881,  p.  80. 


Penalty. 


XXVI. 

Section  1.  Where  any  railroad  crosses  a  highway  in  any 
city  at  grade,  within  two  hundred  feet  of  a  covered  bridge 
on  said  highway,  such  highway  shall  not  be  obstructed  by 
the  making  up  of  railroad  trains,  nor  by  allowing  any  train, 
car,  or  locomotive  to  stand  on  or  across  said  highway,  for 
more  than  three  minutes  at  one  time;  and  whenever  such 
highway  has  been  once  so  used  or  occupied,  or  whenever  a 
locomotive  or  train  has  passed  entirely  over  it,  said  highway 
shall  not  again  be  so  used  or  occupied,  or  crossed  by  locomo- 
tive or  cars,  until  a  sufficient  time  has  been  allowed  to  enable 
all  teams  which  are  ready,  and  waiting  for  the  purpose,  to 
cross  the  tracks  of  said  railroad. 

Sec  2.  Any  servant,  agent,  or  employee  of  any  railroad 
corporation,  wilfully  violating  any  provision  of  the  preceding- 
section,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on 
conviction  thereof,  on  complaint  of  any  grand  juror  of  the 
town  where  the  offense  is  committed,  shall  be  punished  by  a 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS.  119 

fine  not  exceeding  seven  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  not 
exceeding  thirty  days,  or  by  both. 
Approved,  April  14,  1881. 

XXYII.  

Section  1.  The  railroad  commissioners  when  requested  aag'^^uKuroad 
in  writing  by  the  selectmen  of  any  town,  the  mayor  and  p.  a.,  iski,  p.  294. 
common  council  of  any  city,  or  the  warden  and  burgesses  of 
any  borough,  to  order  a  gate  or  electric  signal  to  be  erected, 
or  a  flagman  to  be  stationed  at  any  railroad  crossing,  shall  visit 
such  place,  first  giving  the  authorities  making  such  request 
reasonable  notice  thereof,  and  if  the  public  safety  requires 
it,  shall  order  the  company  operating  said  railroad  to  main- 
tain a  gate,  or  electric  signal,  to  keep  a  flagman  at  said  place, 
or  to  do  any  other  act  at  said  place  needful  for  the  protec- 
tion of  the  public,  and  may  specify  when  said  gate  shall  be 
opened  and  closed,  or  when  flagmen  shall  be  on  duty,  and 
may  change  any  such  order  when  they  deem  it  necessary, 
first  visiting  the  town,  city,  or  borough  in  which  said  cross- 
ing is  located,  and  there  giving  the  authorities  thereof  an 
opportunity  to  be  heard  thereon ;  and  if  any  railroad  com-  penalty. 
pany  shall  neglect  to  station  flagmen,  or  maintain  gates  or 
electric  signals  as  ordered  by  said  commissioners,  or  shall 
neglect  to  comply  with  any  order  of  said  commissioners 
provided  for  by  this  section,  or  any  order  heretofore  issued 
by  said  commissioners  relating  to  the  maintenance  of  gates, 
electric  signals,  or  flagmen,  at  any  railroad  crossing,  it  shall 
forfeit  to  the  state  fifty  dollars  for  each  day  of  such  neglect. 

Sec.  2.     When  the  railroad  commissioners,  on  application  Decision  or  commis. 

'  -ti-  sioners,  how  com- 

as  aforesaid,  shall   make   an   order  as   provided   herein,  or  ""•"*'*'''''• 

refuse  to  make  the  same,  their  decision  shall  be  communi- 
cated to  the  parties  in  interest  within  thirty  days  from  the 
final  hearing  on  the  same,  and  either  party  aggrieved  by 
such  decision  may  appeal  therefrom  to  the  Superior  Court,  Appeals. 
in  the  manner  arid  with  like  effect  as  provided  for  appeals  in 
section  fifty -two  of  article  two,  part  nine,  chapter  two,  title 
seventeen,  of  th§  general  statutes  (page  327).  But  in  all 
cases  where  a  flagman,  gate,  or  electric  signal  shall  be  ordered 


120 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC    WORKS. 


Expense, 


Amendment  of 
order. 


by  the  Superior  Court  upon  an  appeal  taken  by  the  appli- 
cants therefor,  such  court  may  at  its  discretion  order  a  por- 
tion of  the  expense  of  maintaining  or  erecting  the  same,  but 
not  exceeding  one-half,  to  be  borne  by  the  town,  city,  or 
borough  in  which  the  crossing  is  situated;  and  the  Superior 
Court  may  at  any  time  upon  the  aj^plication  of  either  party, 
with  due  notice  to  adverse  parties,  annul  or  vary  any  order 
passed  as  aforesaid;  piwided,  such  court  shall  find  there  has 
been  a  change  of  circumstances  surrounding  such  crossing. 
Approved,  May  1,  1883. 


XXYIII. 


Switching,  etc..  Section  1.     Thc  railroad   commissioners   are  empowered 

across  highway,  how 

p.''a.'!'i^8«.3,  p.  269.  and  authorized  to  order  any  railroad  company  not  to  use  for 
switching  purposes,  nor  for  standing  trains  of  any  kind, 
such  portion  of  its  tracks  which  now  are  or  hereafter  ma}^ 
be  placed  upon  or  across  any  public  street  or  highway  as  in 
their  opinion  the  public  convenience  requires  should  not  be 
so  used. 

Complaint.  Sec.  2.     Said   commissioners,  when  requested  in  writing 

by  the  selectmen  of  any  town,  the  mayor  and  common  coun- 
cil of  any  city,  or  the  warden  and  burgesses  of  any  borough, 
to  forbid  the  use  for  switching  purposes  of  the  tracks  of  any 
railroad  company  where  the  same  cross  any  public  street  or 
highway  within  said«town,  city,  or  borough,  shall  visit  such 
crossing,  first  giving  reasonable  notice  to  the  authorities 
making  said  request,  and  if  public  convenience  requires,  shall 

Order  of  railroad     ordcr  the  compauy  operatinp-  said  railroad  not  to  use  the 

commissioners.  x         ./         x  o 

same  or  such  part  thereof  as  may  be  specified  in  said  order 
for  switching  purposes,  and  may  make  any  order  regulating 
such  switching  that  they  shall  deem  proper.  Said  commis- 
sioners may  change  any  such  order  when  they  deem  it  nec- 
essary, first  visiting  said  town,  city,  or  borough,  and  giving 
the  authorities  thereof  an  opportunity  to  be  heard  thereon. 
Penalty.  Sec.  3.     Auy  rallroad  company  neglecting  or  refusing  to 

obey  any  order  of  the  railroad  commissioners  provided  for  in 
this  act  shall  forfeit  to  the  state  fifty  dollars  for  each  day  of 
such  neglect. 


HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS.  121 

Sec.  4.  When  said  commissioners,  on  application  as  afore-  Appeals. 
said,  shall  make  an  order  as  provided  herein,  or  refuse  to 
make  the  same,  their  decision  shall  be  communicated  to  the 
parties  in  interest  within  twenty  days  from  the  final  hearing 
on  the  same,  and  either  party  aggrieved  by  such  decision 
may  appeal  therefrom  to  the  Superior  Court  in  the  manner 
and  with  the  like  eifect  as  provided  for  appeals  in  section 
fifty-two  of  article  two,  part  nine,  chapter  two,  title  seven- 
teen of  the  general  statutes  (page  327);  and  the  Superior 
Court  may  at  any  time,  upon  the  application  of  either  party, 
with  due  notice  to  adverse  parties,  amend  or  change  any 
order  passed  as  aforesaid :  provided^  such  court  shall  find  that 
there  has  been  a  change  of  circumstances  surrounding  such 
crossing. 

Approved,  April  17,  1883. 

XXIX. 

Section   1.     Whenever  the  selectmen  of  any  town,  the  Locomotive  whts- 

tling  restricted. 

mayor  and  common  council  of  any  city,  or  the  warden  and  ?•  a.,  issi,  p.  21. 
burgesses  of  any  borough,  shall  bring  their  petition  in  writ- 
ing to  the  railroad  commissioners,  representing  that  the 
interests  of  the  public  require  that  the  blowing  of  the  loco- 
motive whistle  upon  a  railroad  at  certain  points  within  the 
limits  of  such  town,  city,  or  borough  should  be  dispensed 
with,  said  commissioners  shall  appoint  a  time  and  place  for 
hearing  said  petition,  and  shall  give  reasonable  notice  thereof 
to  the  petitioners  and  the  railroad  company  in  question ;  and 
if  after  such  hearing  they  shall  be  of  opinion  that  the  sound- 
ing of  the  whistle  can  be  dispensed  with,  without  danger  to 
the  public,  they  shall  direct  said  railroad  company  to  omit 
the  same,  and  require  that  the  engine  bell  shall  be  rung  in 
lieu  thereof,  at  such  points  as  they  may  specify. 

Sec.  2.     Whenever  any  railroad  company  shall  receive  such  Directions. 
directions  from  the  railroad  commissioners,  it  shall  thereafter 
omit  the  sounding  of  the  whistle  at  the  points  named  in  said 
order. 

Approved,  March  22,  1881. 


122  '  HIGHWAYS   AND   PUBLIC   WORKS. 

XXX. 

diJturbe'dlitho^ut        Section  1.     No  person   or  corporation  shall  disturb  the 
commis*^ione?s'.       surfacc  of  anv  street  or  highway  in  the  City  of  Hartford  by 

S.  A.,  1883,  p.  762.  *^  &  ^  ./  J 

digging  or  making  excavation,  or  cause  the  same  to  be  so 
disturbed,  without  first  giving  notice  to  the  board  of  street 
commissioners  of  said  city,  and  said  board  of  street  commis- 
sioners shall  have  the  power  to  supervise  and  direct  any  such 
digging  or  excavating,  and  may  prescribe  the  manner  in 
which  the  same  shall  be  done  and  the  condition  to  which  said 
street  or  highway  shall  be  restored:  provided,  however,  that 
no  such  person  or  corporation  shall  be  compelled  to  do  more 
than  to  restore  said  street  or  highway  to  its  usual  condition. 

fS'trtheifordi-      ^^^*  ^-     ^^  ^^y  person   or   corporation   so   disturbing  or 

nary  condition.  causlug  to  bc  dlsturbcd  thc  surface  of  any  street  or  highway 
as  aforesaid,  shall  fail  to  comply  with  the  directions  of  said 
board  of  street  commissioners  in  restoring  the  same  to  its 
usual  condition,  said  board  may,  after  reasonable  notice  to 
such  person  or  corporation  if  known,  otherwise  without 
notice,  restore  the  same,  and  collect  and  recover  from  such 
person  or  corporation  double  the  cost  of  such  restoration. 

Penalty.  Sec.  3.     Any  person  or  corporation  who  shall  neglect  to 

comply  with  the  provisions  of  section  one  of  this  act  as  to 
notice  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  City  of  Hartford,  for  the 
use  of  the  city  treasury,  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  and 
not  more  than  twenty -five  dollars,  the  same  to  be  recovered 
in  an  action  brought  in  the  name  of  said  city  in  the  manner 
provided  in  the  charter  of  said  city  for  the  recovery  of  fines 
and  penalties. 

Water  commis-  Sec.  4.     The  board  of  water  commissioners  of  said  city 

sioners  not  required 

to  give  notice.        ghall  bc  cxempt  from  such  of  the  provisions  of  this  act  as 
pertain  to  the  notice  required  to  be  given  to  the  board  of 
street  commissioners  and  the  penalty  prescribed  therein. 
Approved,  April  4,  1883. 


LIBRARIES.  123 


LIBEAEIES. 


Section  1.  The  city  council  of  any  city  shall  have  power  i^,";j^f£^";^yand*'" 
to  establish  and  maintain*  a  public  library  and  reading-room,  pt'^l^^iiisTp.  59. 
together  with  such  kindred  apartments  and  facilities  as  said 
council  shall  approve,  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  such  city,  and 
may  levy  a  tax  not  to  exceed  one  mill  and  one-half  of  a  mill 
on  the  dollar  annually,  on  all  the  taxable  property  of  the 
city,  such  tax  to  be  levied  and  collected  in  the  same  manner 
as  other  taxes  of  said  city,  and  to  be  known  as  the  "  library 
fund." 

Sec.  2.  When  any  city  council  shall  have  decided  to  estab- 
lish and  maintain  a  public  library  and  reading-room,  under 
this  act,  the  mayor  of  such  city  shall,  with  the  approval  of 
the  city  council,  appoint  a  board  of  nine  directors  for  the  JJ^^^^"'  ^""^ 
same,  chosen  from  the  citizens  at  large,  with  reference  to 
their  fitness  for  such  office ;  and  not  more  than  one  member 
of  the  city  council  shall  be  a  member  of  said  board. 

Sec.  3.  Said  directors  shall  hold  office,  one-third  for  one  Termofomce. 
year,  one-third  for  two  years,  and  one-third  for  three  years 
from  the  first  of  July  following  their  appointment,  and  at 
_^  their  first  regular  meeting  shall  cast  lots-  for  the  respective 
Bterms;  and  annually  thereafter  the  mayor  shall  before  the 
first  of  July  in  each  year  appoint,  as  before,  three  directors, 
to  take  the  place  of  the  retiring  directors,  who  shall  hold 
office  for  three  years,  and  until  their  successors  are  appointed. 
The  mayor  may,  with  the  consent  of  the  city  council,  remove 
any  director  for  misconduct  or  neglect  of  duty. 

Sec.  4.     Vacancies  in  the  board  of  directors,  occasioned  by  vacancies. 
removal,  resignation,  or  otherwise,  shall  be  reported  to  the 
city  council,  and  be  filled  in  the  same  manner  as  original 
appointments. 

Sec.  5.     Said  directors  shall,  immediately  after  their  ap-  powers  and  duties, 
pointment,  meet  and  organize  by  the  election  of  one  of  their 
number   as   president,   and    by  the  election   of  such   other 


*  Concerning  appropriations  for  libraries,  see  p.  38. 


124  LIBRARIES. 

officers  as  they  may  deem  necessary.  They  shall  make  and 
adopt  such  by-laws,  rules,  and  regulations  for  their  own 
guidance  and  for  the  government  of  the  library  and  reading- 
room  as  may  be  expedient,  not  inconsistent  with  this  act. 
They  shall  have  the  exclusive  control  of  the  expenditure  of 
all  moneys  collected  to  the  credit  of  the  library  fund,  and*  of 
the  construction  of  any  library  building,  and  of  the  supervis- 
ion, care,  and  custody  of  the  grounds,  rooms,  or  buildings 
constructed,  leased,  given,  or  set  apart  for  that  purpose: 
'provided,  that  all  moneys  collected  and  received  for  such  pur- 
pose shall  be  placed  in  the  treasury  of  said  city,  to  the  credit 
of  the  "library  fund,"  and  shall  be  kept  separate  from  other 
moneys  of  the  city,  and  shall  be  drawn  upon  by  the  proper 
officers  of  said  city,  upon  the  properly  authenticated  vouchers 
of  said  directors.  Said  board  shall  have  power  to  purchase, 
lease,  or  accept  grounds,  to  erect,  lease,  or  occupy  an  appro- 
priate building  or  buildings  for  the  use  of  said  library;  to 
appoint  a  person  of  suitable  learning,  ability,  and  experience 
as  librarian,  and  all  necessary  assistants,  and  fix  their  com- 
pensation, to  remove  such  appointees;  and  shall  in  general 
carry  out  the  spirit  and  intent  of  this  act,  in  establishing  and 
maintaining  a  public  library  and  reading-room,  together  with 
such  kindred  apartments  and  facilities  as  said  council  shall 
approve. 

Libraries  to  be  free.  Sec.  6.  Evcry  library  and  reading-room  established  under 
this  act  shall  be  forever  free  to  the  use  of  the  inhabitants  of 
the  city  where  located,  always  subject  to  such  reasonable 
rules  and  regulations  as  the  board  of  directors  may  adopt,  in 
order  to  render  the  use  of  said  library  and  reading-room  of 
the  greatest  benefit  to  the  greatest  number;  and  said  board 
may  exclude  from  the  use  of  said  library  and  reading-room 
any  and  all  persons  who  shall  wilfully  violate  such  rules. 
And  said  board  may  extend  the  privileges  and  use  of  such 
library  and  reading-room  to  persons  residing  outside  of  such 
city  in  this  state,  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  said 
board  may  from  time  to  time  prescribe. 

Annual  report.  Sec.  7.     Thc  Said  board  of  directors  shall  make  on  or  be- 

fore the  second  Monday  in  June  an  annual  report  to  the  city 


LIBRARIES.  125 

council,  stating  the  condition  of  their  trust  on  the  first  day 
of  June  of  that  year,  the  various  sums  of  money  received 
from  the  library  fund  and  from  other  sources,  and  how  such 
moneys  have  been  expended,  and  for  what  purposes;   the 

number  of  books  and  periodicals  on  hand;  the  number  added  — 

by  purchase,  gift,  or  otherwise,  during  the  year;  the  number 
lost  or  missing ;  the  number  of  visitors  attending ;  the  num- 
ber of  books  loaned  out,  and  the  general  character  of  such 
books;  with  such  other  statistics,  information,  and  sugges- 
tions as  they  may  deem  of  general  interest.  All  such  por- 
tions of  said  report  as  relate  to  the  receipt  and  expenditure 
of  money,  as  well  as  the  number  of  books  on  hand,  books 
lost  or  missing,  and  books  purchased,  shall  be  verified  by 
affidavit. 

Sec.  8.  The  city  council  of  said  city  shall  have  power  to  Penaiues  for  abuse. 
pass  ordinances  imposing  suitable  penalties  for  the  punish- 
ment of  persons  committing  injury  upon  such  library,  or  the 
grounds  or  other  property  thereof,  and  for  injury  to,  or  fail- 
ure to  return,  any  book  belonging  to  such  library.  It  shall 
be  the  duty  of  every  librarian  or  board  of  directors,  having 
charge  or  control  of  such  library  or  property,  to  post  up  in 
one  or  more  conspicuous  places  connected  therewith  a  printed 
copy  of  this  section.  And  justices  of  the  peace,  or  city  or 
police  courts,  in  their  respective  counties,  shall  have  jurisdic- 
tion to  hear,  try,  and  determine  all  prosecutions  under  this 
section. 

Sec.  9.  Any  person  desiring  to  make  donations  of  money,  ^^'^^^j^^'^'^y  ^"i** 
personal  property,  or  real  estate  for  the  benefit  of  such 
library,  shall  have  the  right  to  vest  the  title  to  such  donation 
in  the  board  of  directors  created  under  this  act,  to  be  held 
and  controlled  when  accej)ted  by  such  board  according  to  the 
terms  of  the  deed,  gift,  devise,  or  bequest  of  such  property; 
and  as  to  such  property  the  said  board  shall  be  held  to  be 
special  trustees. 

Sec.  10.     When  fifty  lethal  voters  of  any  town  or  borough  Taxfor.-upportof 

•^  <^  "Z  O       library  in  town  or 

shall  present  a  petition  to  the  clerk  of  the  town  or  borough,  ^°'°''^^- 
asking  that  an  annual  tax  may  be  levied  for  the  establish- 
ment and  maintenance  of  a  free  public  library  and  reading- 


126 


LIBRARIES. 


Public  documents. 


I 


room  in  such  town  or  borough,  and  shall  specify  in  thoir  peti- 
tion a  rate  of  taxation,  not  to  exceed  three  mills  on  the  dollar, 
such  clerk  shall,  in  the  next  legal  notice  of  the  regular  annual 
election  in  such  town  or  borough,  give  notice  that  at  such 

election  every  elector  may  vote  "for  a mill  tax  for  a  free 

public  library  and  reading-room,"  or  "against  a mill  tax 

for  a  free  public  library  and  reading-room,"  specifying  in  such 
notice  the  rate  of  taxation  mentioned  in  said  petition ;  and  if 
the  majority  of  all  the  votes  cast  in  such  town  or  borough 
shall  be  "for  the  tax  for  a  free  public  library  and  reading- 
room,"  the  tax  specified  in  such  notice  shall  be  levied  and 
collected  in  the  same  manner  as  other  general  taxes  of  said 
town  or  borough,  and  shall  be  known  as  the  "library  fund," 
'provided^  that  such  tax  may  be  .lessened  or  increased  within 
the  three-mill  limit,  or  made  to  cease,  in  case  the  legal  voters 
of  any  such  town  or  borough  shall  so  determine  by  a  majority 
vote  at  any  annual  election  held  therein;  and  the  corporate 
authorities  of  such  town  or  borough  shall  have  and  may 
exercise  the  same  powers  conferred  upon  the  corporate  au- 
thorities of  cities  under  this  act. 

Sec.  11.  At  the  next  regular  election  after  any  town  or 
borough  shall  have  voted  to  establish  and  maintain  a  free  pub- 
lic library  and  reading-room,  there  shall  be  elected  a  library 
board  of  six  directors,  one-third  for  one  year,  one-third  for  two 
years,  and  one-third  for  three  years  \  and  annually  thereafter 
there  shall  be  elected  two  directors,  who  shall  hold  their  office 
for  three  years  and  until  their  successors  are  elected  and  qual- 
ified ;  which  board  shall  have  the  same  powers  as  are  by  this 
act  conferred  upon  the  board  of  directors  of  free  public 
libraries  and  reading-rooms  in  cities.  Ko  director  of  any  free 
public  library  or  reading-room  established  under  the  provis- 
ions of  this  act  in  any  city,  town,  or  borough  shall  receive  any 
compensation  for  any  services  rendered  as  such  director. 

Sec.  12.  The  secretary  of  state  is  hereby  authorized  to 
send  a  copy  of  the  annual  laws  of  the  state,  together  with  the 
legislative  documents  and  journals,  to  each  free  public  library 
which  shall  desire  them. 

Approved,  April  13,  1881. 


LICENSES.  127 


LICENSES. 

I.    Auctioneers.  |  II.    Exhibitions. 

I. 

Section  1.     Every  person  not  a  resident  of  any  town,  city,  Nonresident auc- 

•'J-  J  1  J  1  tioneers  to  procure 

or  borough  in  which  he  shall  expose  for  sale  by  auction  any  p? a.^istt,  p.  227. 
goods  or  articles,  except  provisions,  charcoal,  wood,  and  the 
products  of  a  farm,  and  second-hand  household  furniture, 
without  a  license  therefor  from  a  majority  of  the  selectmen 
of  such  town,  or  from  the  authorities  of  such  city  or  borough, 
authorized  by  the  charter  or  by-laws  of  such  city  or  borough 
to  issue  such  license,  shall  be  fined  not  more  than  fifty  dollars, 
nor  less  than  twenty  dollars,  or  imprisoned  in  the  common 
gaol  of  the  county  in  which  said  town,  city,  or  borough  is 
situated,  not  less  than  twenty  days  nor  more  than  sixty  days, 
or  by  such  fine  and  imprisonment  both. 

Sec.  2.     The  majority  of  the  selectmen  of  every  town  are  License,  hov  and  by 

•^  "^  ''  -whom  granted. 

hereby  empowered  to  issue  such  licenses,  and  in  case  the 
charter  or  by-laws  of  any  city  or  borough  do  not  authorize 
any  person  or  persons  to  issue  such  license,  the  mayor  of  such 
city  and  the  warden  of  such  borough  are  hereby  empowered 
to  issue  the  same,  but  no  license  shall  be  issued  unless  an 
application  therefor  in  writing  shall  have  been  made  and 
filed  with  one  of  the  selectmen,  or  with  the  authority  author- 
ized by  law  to  issue  such  license,  at  least  three  days  before 
the  issue  of  the  same ;  and  the  authority  issuing  such  license 
shall  have  power  to  revoke  the  same,  if  in  the  judgment  of 
such  authority  it  shall  be  for  the  public  interest  so  to  do. 

Sec.  3.  Section  twenty-two,  of  title  twenty,  of  chapter  Kepeai,  and  its 
nine,  of  the  general  statutes  of  this  state,  and  all  acts  and 
parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith,  are  hereby  repealed;  but 
this  repeal  shall  not  affect  any  suit  or  prosecution  now  pend- 
ing, or  license  already  issued,  and  such  suit  or  prosecution 
shall  proceed  the  same  in  all  respects  as  if  this  act  had  not 
been  passed. 

Approved,  March  21,  1877. 


128 


MISDEMEANORS. 


Rxhibitions,  how 

regulated. 

R.  S.,  p.  546,  §  6, 


II. 

The  mayor,  aldermen,  and  common  council  of  any  city,  the 
warden  and  burgesses  of  any  borough,  and  the  selectmen  of 
any  town,  may  license  and  regulate  any  exhibitions  therein ; 
but  selectmen  shall  not  license  any  such  exhibition  within 
the  limits  of  any  city  or  borough. 


MISDEMEAN"OES. 


Misdemeanor!!  un 
der  the  city  charter 
S.  A.,  vol.  5 


Section  1.  That  the  eighth  section  of  the  act  to  alter  the 
*^^-  charter  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  and  to  combine  sundry  public 
statutes  relating  thereto,  aj^proved  June  24, 1859,  be  amended 
by  the  addition  of  the  following  clauses,  to  wit :  The  violation 
of  any  ordinance,  or  by-law  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  made  or 
to  be  made,  relative  to  the  speed  of  animals,  vehicles,  and  cars ; 
for  protecting  and  preserving  trees  and  other  ornaments  of 
public  places ;  for  protecting  the  state-house  yard  in  said  city ; 
for  restraining  cruelty  to  animals  and  inhuman  sports ;  for 
prohibiting,  restraining,  licensing,  and  regulating  all  sports, 
exhibitions,  public  amusements,  and  performances,  and  billiard 
and  bowling  saloons ;  for  regulating  or  prohibiting  swimming 
or  bathing  in  public  or  exposed  places  within  said  city ;  for 
preventing  and  punishing  trespasses  in  gardens,  cemeteries, 
and  enclosures,  and  public  buildings ;  for  protecting  said  city 
from  exposure  to  fire,  regulating  the  mode  of  building  or 
altering  buildings  within  said  city  or  any  part  thereof,  and 
the  mode  of  using  any  building  therein ;  for  prohibiting  and 
regulating  the  bringing  in,  carrying  out  or  through,  or  stor- 
ing gunpowder;  for  regulating  the  location  of  stationary- 
steam  boilers,  barns  and  out-houses,  sinks  and  drains,  in  said 
city;  for  preventing  illegal  practices  with  dead  bodies  in 
medical  institutions,  or  elsewhere,  in  said  city,  shall  be  a  mis- 
demeanor;  and  may  be  prosecuted  as  such  before  the  City 


MISFEASANCE   IN   OFFICE. 


129 


Police  Court,  like  other  offences;    which   court  may  inflict fu^V^liSonV"' 
therefor  the  penalty  named  in  such  ordinance  or  by-law,  and 
enforce  the  same  in  the   same   manner  as  other  judgments 
of  said  City  Police  Court  are  enforced. 

Sec.  2.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage.  — _, 

Approved,  June  26,  1862. 


MISFEASANCE  IN  OFFICE. 


I.    Commissions  to  public  agents  for- 
bidden. 
II.    Auditor  may  require  oath  to  ac- 
counts. 
III.    Penalty  for  public  ofl&cer  taking 
more  than  legal  compensation. 


IV.    Misfeasance  by  public  officers. 
V.    Embezzlement  by  public  officers. 
VI.    Excessive   expenditures  by  public 
agents  forbidden. 


I. 

Every  officer  or  a^ent  of  the  state,  or  of  any  city,  town,  commissions  to 

•^  '^  ^  ./  ./  7  7  p^jjjjg  agents. 

borough,  or  public  institution,  and  any  person  employed  by  ^- ^- p- ^^^' ^  ^^• 
either  of  them  to  procure  any  materials,  or  other  articles,  by 
purchase  or  contract,  or  to  employ  labor,  who  shall  directly 
or  indirectly,  for  himself  or  another,  receive  any  allowance  or 
reward  from  the  person  or  persons  making  such  contract, 
furnishing  such  materials,  or  other  articles,  or  rendering  such 
labor,  and  any  person  who  shall  give  or  offer  any  such  allow- 
ance or  reward,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  ten  dollars,  nor 
more  than  five  hundred  dollars,  or  imprisoned  not  more  than 
one  year. 

II. 

The  auditor  of  any  city,  town,  borough,  or  public  corpora-  oatiimaybe 

required  of  claimant 

tion   or  institution,   or  any  person   authorized   to   approve  ^^'l^'^  *"y  """"■'*•"' 
demands  for  the  price  of  articles  furnished  or  services  p^j^.  ^- s- p- ^' ^ '^• 
dered  for  the  same,  may,  before  approving  any  such  demand, 
require  the  claimant  to  make  oath,  that  the  whole  of  said 
articles  have  been  furnished,  or  that  the  whole  service  has 


130 


MISFEASANCE    IN   OFFICE. 


been  performed,  and  that  no  commission,  discount,  bonus, 
reward  or  present  of  any  kind  has  been  received,  or  is  prom- 
ised or  expected  on  account  of  the  same. 


Penalty  for  public 
officer  taking  more 
than  his  legal 
compensation. 
P.  A.,  1877,  p.  213 


III. 

If  any  officer  of  the  state,  or  of  any  district,  city,  count}", 
town,  or  borough,  whose  salary  or  compensation  is  fixed  by 
law,  shall  charge  and  receive,  or  shall  retain,  receive,  or  col- 
lect to  his  own  use  any  sum  or  sums  in  excess  of  the  legal 
salary  or  compensation,  he  shall,  uj^on  conviction  thereof,  be 
fined  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars,  or  be  imprisoned 
not  exceeding  one  year,  at  the  discretion  of  the  court  having 
cognizance  of  the  offence. 

Approved,  March  16,  1877. 


Misreasance  by 
public  officers. 
B.  S.,  p.  524,  §  2. 


lY. 

Any  magistrate,  or  officer  or  agent  of  any  public  commu- 
nity, who  shall,  with  intent  to  prejudice  it,  appropriate  its 
property  to  the  use  of  any  person,  or  make  upon  its  books 
any  false  entry,  or  draw  any  order  upon  its  treasurer;  or 
present  or  aid  in  procuring  to  be  allowed  any  fraudulent 
claim  against  such  community,  stall  be  fined  not  less  than 
fifty  dollars,  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars,  or  imprisoned 
not  less  than  sixty  days,  nor  more  than  one  year,  or  both. 


Embezzlement 
defined,  and  how 


punished 
P.  A., 


1878,  p.  289. 


Section  1.  Every  officer  or  agent  of  any  public,  munici- 
pal, or  private  corporation;  every  executor,  administrator, 
guardian,  conservator,  or  any  trustee  under  a  testamentary 
or  any  express  trust,  who  shall  wrongfully. appropriate  and 
convert  to  his  own  use  the  money,  funds,  or  property  of  such 
corporation,  estate,  ward,  trust,  or  other  person,  shall  be 
guilty  of  embezzlement,  and  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not 
to  exceed  ten  thousand  dollars,  or  by  imj)risonment  not  to 
exceed  ten  years,  or  by  such  fine  and  imprisonment  both. 


MISFEASANCE   IN   OFFICE.  131 

Sec.  2.     All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  this  B«peai. 
act  are  hereby  repealed. 
Approved,  March  29,  1878. 

YI. 

Section  1.     The  General  Assembly  in  behalf  of  the  state;  ^nipMicllT^L 
the  representatives  of  the  towns  in  the  several  counties  in  spTcmT/ppropria. 
behalf  of  their  counties ;   every  city,  by  its  common  council  ^'  ^"  ^^"'  ^'  ^^^' 
when  so  authorized  by  its  charter,  or  by  its  freemen  in  legal 
meeting  assembled ;  and  every  town,  borough,  or  school  dis- 
trict, by  legal  meeting   of  its   qualified  voters,  may  make 
appropriations  of  specific  sums  of  money  for  any  purpose 
authorized  by  law,  and  by  the  warnings  of  the  meetings  at 
which  the  appropriations  are  made. 

Sec  2.     Whenever  any  specific  appropriations  of  money  SaSpr"opSn* 
may  have  been  made  by  the  Grcneral  Assembly,  the  represent-  officer  of  uie'l^tau! 

•  *^  •"•  or  public  corpora- 

atives  of  the  several  counties,  or  by  any  community  or  cor-  "°°- 
poration  named  in  the  first  section  of  this  act,  every  agent, 
commissioner,  or  executive  officer  of  the  state,  or  of  any 
county,  city,  borough,  town,  or  school  district,  who  shall 
Avilfully  authorize  or  contract  for  the  expenditure  of  any 
money,  or  the  creation  of  any  debt  for  any  purpose  in  excess 
of  the  amount  sj)ecifically  appropriated  for  such  purpose  by 
the  General  Assembly,  the  county  representatives,  or  the 
community  or  corporation  of  which  he  is  the  agent,  commis- 
sioner, or  executive  officer,  unless  such  expenditure  shall  be  Exceptions. 
made  or  debt  contracted  for  the  necessary  repair  of  roads  or 
bridges,  or  the  necessary  support  of  schools  or  paupers,  in 
cases  arising  after  the  proper  appropriation  has  been  ex- 
hausted, shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  convic- 
tion thereof,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  one  penalty, 
thousand  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail  not 
exceeding  one  year,  or  by  such  fine  and  imprisonment  both. 
Approved,  March  20,  1877. 


132  OFFICES  —  OFFENCES   AGAINST   PUBLIC   PROPERTY. 


OFFICES. 

Mayor  and  members      That  from  and  aftcr  the  first  Monday  of  April,  A.  D.  1873, 

of  Common  Council  »/  ±         ^  j 

hoidingcerS      neither  the  mayor  nor  any  member  of  either  branch  of  the 

city  offices. 

s.  A.,  vol.  7,  p.  259.  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  shall  be 
chosen  or  appointed  to  any  other  office  by  such  Court  of 
Common  Council  of  said  city,  nor  shall  any  member  of  either 
branch  of  said  Court  of  Common  Council  be  chosen  or  ap- 
pointed to  serve  upon  any  of  the  several  commissions,  having 
charge  of  the  various  departments  or  public  works  of  said 
city. 

Approved,  June  11,  1872. 


OFFEI^CES  AGAINST  PUBLIC  PEOPEETY. 

Injuries  to  puwic         Section  1.     Evcrv  pcrsou,  who  shall  wilfully  injure  any 

buildings  or  furni-  ^      i.  J  ^  v  .J 

r"s..*'S'5oo,§§3,6,  public  building,  house  of  public  worship,  college  or  school- 

7  and  8. 

house,  or  who  shall  wilfully  injure  or  carry  away  any  stove, 
stove-pipe  or  furniture,  in  and  belonging  to  any  such  build- 
ing, shall  be  fined  not  more  than  twenty  dollars,  or  impris- 
oned not  more  than  ninety  days,  or  both. 
Injury  to  trees  on        Sec.  2.     Evcrv  pcrsou,  who  shall  injure  or  destroy  any  tree 

public  squares.  ./     X  ;  J  J  J 

growing  on  any  public  square  or  grounds,  without  the  con- 
sent of  the  city,  borough  or  town,  where  the  same  is  situated, 
or  shall  wilfully  injure  the  fences  or  herbage  of  any  such 
public  square  or  grounds,  shall  be  fined  not  more  than  fifty 
dollars. 
Wilful  injury  to  Sec.  3.     Evcry  person,  who  shall  wilfully  injure  any  statue, 

public  property  in  ./    A  ^  d         o  ^  i 

highways  or  parks,  n^^onument,  chalr,  or  other  seat,  or  any  lamp,  or  lamp-post, 
constructed  or  being  in  any  highway,  public  space,  or  park, 
or  any  railing,  or  fence  erected  for  public  use,  or  inclosing 
any  such  space,  or  park,  or  any  walk,  or  crossing  for  foot 


ORDINANCES.  133 

passengers,  or  any  sewer,  curbing,  or  paved  gutter,  shall  be 
fined  not  less  than  ten,  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars,  or  impris- 
oned not  less  than  seven,  nor  more  than  thirty  days,  or  both. 

Sec.  4.     Every  person,  who  shall  wilfully  tear  down,  re-  J^*'^^"^8  "^*""» 

move  or  deface,  any  notice  posted  in  compliance  with  law, 

shall  be  fined  not  more  than  seven  dollars. 


OEDmANCES. 


Concerning  venders,  peddlers  and  |  III.    Publication, 
gaming.  I  IV.    Revision  without  publication. 


II.    Suppression  of  gambling. 


I. 


Section  1.     The  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  s.  a.,  1879,  p.  240. 
Hartford  shall  have  power  by  a  majority  of  the  members  of 
each  branch  present  and  absent,  subject  to  the  approval  or 
di8aj)proval  of  the  mayor,  to  make,  alter,  and  repeal  ordi- 
nances for  the  following  pui-poses:     To  require  a  suitable  i^icenses/or  tempo- 

<->     X         X  rL  rary  business. 

license  fee  from  and  grant  licenses  to  all  persons  who  desire 
to  sell  any  kind  of  goods,  wares,  or  merchandise,  for  a  short 
space  of  time  at  holiday  seasons,  or  at  other  times,  and  who 
only  temporarily  occupy  storerooms,  sidewalks,  or  street  cor- 
ners, for  the  purpose  of  such  sales,  also  to  require  a  suitable 
license  fee  from  and  ffrant  licenses  to  peddlers  and  venders  of  Licenses  to 

'-'  •••  peddlers. 

goods,  wares,  and  merchandise  about  the  streets,  and  at  the 
stores,  houses,  offices,  and  banks  in  said  city,  and  to  regulate 
all  such  traffic  and  vending,  provided  that  such  ordinances 
shall  not  hinder  or  interfere  with  the  sale  within  said  city  of 
the  produce  of  the  farms  and  gardens  of  this  state. 

Sec  2.     Said  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  also  have  Gambling, 
power  to  make,  alter,  and  repeal  ordinances  to  suppress  the 
playing   of  policy,  so   called,  and   all  kinds   of  gaming  or 
gambling,  and  to  prevent  idlers  and  persons  without  apparent 


1B4! 


ORDINANCES. 


Penalty  for  viola- 
tion of  various 


Mayor  to  furnisli 
statement  of 
municipal  affairs. 


When  act  takes 
effect. 


employment  from  inveigling  youth  and  unsuspecting  persons 
into  policy  shops,  gambling  places,  and  places  of  ill-repute. 

Sec.  3.  Said  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  have  power 
by  ordinance  to  provide  for  the  punishment  in  and  by  the 
Police  Court  of  said  city,  by  fine  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars, 
or  imprisonment  not  exceeding  thirty  days,  or  both,  of  all 
violations  of  ordinances  made  under  the  authority  of  this 
act,  and  of  all  violations  of  ordinances  relating  to  nuisances, 
and  ordinances  regulating  public  hacks  or  carriages,  the 
charges  of  hackmen  and  public  drivers,  cartmen  and  truck- 
men, and  ordinances  requiring  sidewalks  to  be  kept  clean  and 
free  from  snow,  ice,  and  other  obstructions,  and  ordinances 
to  prevent  the  running  at  large  of  cattle,  sheep,  swine  and 
goats. 

Sec.  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  mayor  of  said  city, 
from  time  to  time,  to  furnish  a  statement  to  the  Court  of 
Common  Council  of  the  condition  of  municipal  affairs,  and 
to  communicate  such  recommendations  in  relation  thereto,  as 
may  seem  to  him  proper. 

Sec.  5.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved,  March  28,  1879. 


II. 


By-laws  to  sup- 
press gambling. 
P.  A..  188X,  p.  43. 


The  court  of  common  council  of  any  city,  and  the  warden, 
burgesses,  and  freemen  of  any  borough  in  this  state,  and  the 
inhabitants  of  any  town  in  legal  town  meeting  assembled 
shall  have  power  to  make,  alter,  and  repeal  ordinances  or  by- 
laws to  suppress  and  punish  all  kinds  of  gambling  and  gam- 
ing, pool  selling,  policy  playing,  lottery  dealing,  bucket-shop 
business,  and  the  staking  or  deposit  of  money  or  collaterals 
for  the  same  on  margins  or  otherwise  against  a  rise  or  fall  in 
the  markets  of  the  price  of  stocks,  bonds,  or  merchandise, 
and  to  prevent  idlers  and  persons  without  apparent  employ- 
ment from  enticing  persons  into  places  where  gambling  of 
any  kind  is  carried  on. 

Approved,  April  6,  1881. 


ORDINANCES.  135 

III. 

Section  1.  That  the  ninth  section  of  the  act  to  alter  the 
charter  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  and  to  combine  sundry  pub- 
lic statutes  relating  thereto,  approved  June  24,  1859,  be  so        

amended  in  the  ninth  section  of  said  act  as  to  read  as  follows : 

"Sec.  9.  No  ordinance  passed  by  the  Court  of  Common  '^^^jf^^^*'' *" ^^ 
Council  shall  take  effect  until  ten  days  from  the  passage  of  ^"  ^"  ''"*■  ^' '''  ^^* 
said  ordinance,  nor  until  it  has  been  published  twice  in  two 
or  more  daily  papers  issued  within  the  City  of  Hartford,  and 
the  clerk  of  said  city  shall  cause  every  ordinance  passed  by 
said  Court  of  Common  Council  to  be  published  without  un- 
reasonable delay;  and  the  certificate  of  the  city  clerk  upon 
the  record  of  such  ordinance,  that  the  same  has  been  so  pub- 
lished, shall  be  prima  facie  evidence  thereof,  in  any  suit  or 
proceeding;  and  no  ordinance  shall  be  valid,  if  repugnant  to 
the  laws  of  the  state." 

Sec  2.     All  parts  of  said  ninth  section,  repugnant  here-  Kepeai. 
with,  are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  3.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved,  May  23,  1860. 

lY. 


That  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Hart-  Publication  of 

♦^  revised  ordinances 

ford  may,  from  time  to  time,  revise  the  ordinances  of  said  s^aTvokT  p.  276. 
city,  combining  therein  existing  ordinances,  and  making  such 
alteration  as  they  may  deem  necessary,  which  revision  so 
made  shall  be  legal  and  valid  without  the  publication  now 
required  to  be  made  of  new  ordinances. 
Approved,  June  26,  1872.* 


136 


POLICE   AND   POLICE   REGULATIONS. 


POLICE  AND  POLICE  EEGULATIONS. 


I. 

Power  to  arrest. 

VIII. 

Vagrants. 

II. 

Arrest  without  warrant. 

IX. 

Truants. 

III. 

Officer  may  break  into  house. 

X. 

Duties  of  police  concerning  in- 

IV. 

Witnesses  before  Board  of  Police 

ebriates. 

Commissioners. 

XI. 

Commitment  to  Reform  school. 

V. 

Closing  saloons  on  election  days. 

XII. 

Commitment  to  Industrial  school. 

VI. 

Firearms  and  firecrackers. 

XIII. 

Sale  of  unclaimed  property  by 

VII. 

Tramps. 

police  authorities. 

I 


Authority  of  police. 
R.  S.,  p.  33,  §  1. 


I. 

Active  members  of  any  legally  organized  police  force,  in  a 
city  or  borough,  shall  have  the  same  authority  to  execute 
criminal  process  in  their  respective  cities  or  boroughs,  as 
constables  have  in  their  respective  towns. 


Arrest  without 

warrant. 

R.  S.,  p.  34,  §  3. 


II. 

Sheriffs,  deputy  sheriffs,  constables,  borough  bailiffs,  police 
officers,  and  railroad  and  steamboat  police,  in  their  respective 
precincts,  shall  arrest,  without  previous  complaint  and  war- 
rant, any  person  for  any  offence  in  their  jurisdiction,  when 
the  offender  shall  be  taken  or  apprehended  in  the  act,  or  on 
the  speedy  information  of  others  ]  and  all  persons  so  arrested 
shall  be  immediately  presented  before  proper  authority. 


When  officers  may 
brealc  into  houses. 
P.  A.,  1882,  p.  1^8, 
^5. 


III. 

Every  officer  who  shall  have  a  warrant  for  the  arrest  of 
any  person  charged  with  keeping  a  house  of  ill-fame,  or  with 
keeping  a  house  reputed  to  be  a  house  of  ill-fame  or  a  house 
of  assignation,  or  with  keeping  a  house  where  lewd,  disso- 
lute, or  drunken  persons  resort,  or  where  drinking,  carousing, 
dancing,  and  fighting  are  permitted,  to  the  disturbance  of  the 
neighbors,  or  with  violating  any  law  against  gaming  in  the 
house  or  rooms  occupied  by  him,  or  with  resorting  to  any 
house  for  any  of  said  purposes,  or  who  shall  have  a  warrant 
for  the  arrest  of  any  person  charged  with  keeping  open  on 
Sunday  any  room,  place,  enclosure  or  any  building  or  struct- 


POLICE   AND    POLICE    REGULATIONS.  137 

ure  of  any  kind  or  description  in  which  it  is  reputed  that 
spirituous  and  intoxicating  liquors  are  exposed  for  sale,  or 
with  selling  spirituous  and  intoxicating  liquors  in  any  place 
on  Sunday,  or  for  the  seizure  of  spirituous  and  intoxicating 

liquors,  may  at  any  time,  for  the  j)urpose  of  gaining  admis-        — ^ — . 

sion  to  such  house,  room,  j^lace,  enclosure,  building,  or  struct- 
ure, or  for  the  purpose  of  arresting  any  of  the  persons 
aforesaid,  make  violent  entry  into  such  house,  room,  place, 
enclosure,  building,  or  structure,  or  any  part  thereof,  after 
demanding  admittance  and  giving  notice  that  he  is  an  officer 
and  has  such  warrant,  and  may  arrest  any  person  so  charged 
and  take  him  before  the  proj)er  authority.  The  county  com- 
missioners, sheriff  of  the  county,  and  any  deputy  sheriff  by 
him  specially  authorized,  the  chief  of  police  of  any  city,  or 
any  policeman  by  him  specially  authorized,  may  at  any  time 
enter  upon  the  premises  of  any  person  licensed  under  this 
act  to  ascertain  the  manner  in  which  such  person  conducts 
his  business,  and  to  preserve  order. 

lY. 

■     Section  1.    'The  mayor  of  any  city,  clerk  of  the  board  of  witnesses  before 

R  ./././;  board  of  police 

'police  commissioners  in  any  city,  or  any  justice  of  the  peace,  p.T/iSp.%!)8. 
may  sign  and  issue  process  of  subpoena  to  compel  the  attend- 
Kance  of  witnesses  before  the  board  of  police  commissioners  in 
said  city,  at  any  lawful  meeting  of  said  board. 

Sec.  2.  Such  process  of  suhpcena  may  be  served  in  the  service  of  subpeena. 
same  manner  as  now  by  law  provided  as  to  witnesses  in  civil 
causes,  except  that  no  fees  shall  be  tendered  to  any  witness 
at  the  time  of  such  service.  Any  person  upon  whom  such 
process  has  been  legally  served  shall  appear  before  said  board 
in  obedience  to  such  process,  and  testify  as  to  any  matters 
lawfully  pending  before  said  board,  and  any  Avilful  false  paise  swearing, 
swearing  in  the  premises  shall  be  punished  in  the  same 
manner  as  perjury  before  courts  of  justice. 

Sec.  3.     If  any  person  upon  whom  such  subpoena  has  been  to^Iuendor'^to"^*' 
duly  served  shall  refuse  to  attend  before  said  board,  the  clerk  ^^''*'^^* 
of  the  board  of  police  commissioners,  by  direction  of  said 
board,  may.  issue  a  capias,  directed  to  some  proper  officer,  to 


138  POLICE   AND    POLICE   REGULATIONS. 

arrest  such  witness  and  bring  him  before  said  board  to 
testify ;  and  in  case  such  j)erson  shall  refuse  to  testify,  said 
board  shall  have  power  to  adjudge  such  person  to  be  in  con- 
tempt, and  may  issue  a  mittimus^  signed  by  its  clerk,  and 
commit  such  person  to  jail  for  a  period  of  not  more  than 
thirty  days. 
*'ees.  Sec.  4.     The  same  fees  as  provided _by  law  for  witnesses  in 

civil  causes  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  city  treasury  to  any  wit- 
nesses, except  policemen,  who  shall  attend  and  testify  under 
the  provisions  of  this  act,  the  amount  of  such  fees  to  be 
certified  by  the  mayor  or  clerk  of  said  board  to  the  proper 
auditing  officers  of  the  city. 

Sec.  5.     This  act  shall  take  eifect  from  its  passage. 

Approved,  February  25,  1880. 


Saloons  to  be  closed      Evcry  pcrsou  who  by  himself,  his  servant  or  agent,  between 

on  election  days. 

p^A.,  1882,  p.  187,  -lY^Q  hours  of  five  o'clock  in  the  morning  and  the  hour  of  clos- 
ing the  polls  of  the  day  of  any  annual  city,  town,  or  electors' 
meetings,  shall  keep  open  any  room,  place,  or  enclosure,  or 
any  building  or  structure  of  any  kind  or  description,  in  which 
spirituous  and  intoxicating  liquors  are  sold  to  be  drunk  on 
the  premises,  shall  be  fined  fifty  dollars. 


VI. 

Discharge  of  Every  person,  who  shall  discharge  any  firearm  in  any  city, 

firearms. 

^^Sj,p^5(»,^y2i    or  borough,  except  on  military  occasions,  without  permission 
^'**^"  first  obtained  from  the  mayor  of  said  city,  or  the  warden  of 

said  borough,  shall  be  fined  not  more  than  seven  dollars,  or 
imprisoned  not  more  than  thirty  days ;  and  the  j)roprietor  of 
any  private  military  school,  which  has  received  or  shall 
receive,  by  authority  of  the  Greneral  Assembly,  arms  or 
accoutrements  from  the  state,  or  the  principal  person  having 
charge  of  such  school,  who  shall  fire,  or  cause  any  cannon  to 
be  fired,  in  the  limits  of  any  city  or  borough,  without  a  per- 
mit from  the  mayor  of  such  city,  or  warden  of  such  borough, 
shall  be  fined  not  more  than  two  hundred  dollars;   but  in 


POLICE   AND    POLICE   REGULATIONS.  139 

other  respects,  such  school  may  be  conducted  according  to 
the  military  rules  established  for  its  government. 


Every  person,  who  shall  use  firecrackers,  except  on  the  using  areYa^rs. 
fourth  day  of  July,  or  other  public  holiday,  under  such  regu- 
lations as  the  authorities  of  the  town,  city  or  borough  in 
which  they  are  used  shall  prescribe,  shall  be  fined  five  dollars. 

YII. 

Section  1.     Every  tramp  shall  be  punished  by  imprison-  p'^'^p^g^.j    393 
mcnt  in  the  state  prison  not  more  than  one  year. 

Sec.  2.     All  transient  persons  who  rove  about  from  place  Definition. 
to  place  begging,  and  all  vagrants  living  without  labor,  or. 
visible  means  of  support,  who  stroll  over  the  country  without 
lawful  occasion,  shall  be  held  to  be  tramps  within  the  meaning 
of  this  act. 

Sec  3.     Any  act  of  beggary  or  vagrancy  by  any  person  Evidence. 
not  a  resident  of  this  state,  shall  be  prima  fade  evidence  that 
the  person  committing  the  same  is  a  tramp  within  the  mean- 
ing of  this  act. 

Sec  4.  Any  tramp  who  shall  wilfully  and  maliciously  ^Ifn^c"""^^""  °* 
injure  any  person,  where  such  offence  is  not  now  punishable 
by  imprisonment  in  the  state  prison,  or  shall  be  found  carry- 
ing any  firearm  or  other  dangerous  weapon,  shall  be  punished 
by  imprisonment  in  the  state  prison  not  more  than  three 
years. 

Sec  5.  Any  sherifl:',  deputy  sherifi^,  constable,  special  con-  Arrest. 
stable,  or  policeman,  upon  view  of  any  offence  described  in 
this  act,  or  on  speedy  information  thereof,  may  without  war- 
rant apprehend  the  offender  and  take  him  before  any  compe- 
tent authority  for  examination,  and  on  his  conviction  shall 
be  entitled  to  a  reward  of  five  dollars  therefor,  to  be  paid  by 
the  state. 

Sec  6.     All  mayors,  wardens,  and  selectmen  are  empowered  special  constables. 
and  required  to  appoint  special  constables  whose  duty  it  shall 
be  to  arrest  and  prosecute  all  tramps  in  their  respective  cities, 
boroughs,  and  towns. 


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Exceptions. 


Sec.  7.  This  act  shall  not  apply  to  any  female  or  minor 
under  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  nor  to  any  blind  person,  nor 
to  any  beggar  roving  within  the  limits  of  the  town  in  which 
he  resides. 

Sec.  8.  Upon  the  passage  of  this  act,  the  secretary  of 
state  shall  cause  to  be  printed  durable  copies  of  this  act  to 
be  sent  to  the  several  town  clerks,  who  shall  cause  the  same 
to  be  posted  in  at  least  twelve  conspicuous  places,  six  of 
which  shall  be  in  the  public  highway. 

Sec.  9.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the  twenty-eighth  day 
of  April,  1879. 

Approved,  March  27,  1879. 


Tramps  may  be 
requirel  to  labor. 
P.  A.,  1875,  p.  a. 


And  on  refusal,  etc, 
to  be  committed  to 
workhouse. 


YIII. 

Section  1.  Whenever  any  transient  person  shall  apply  to 
any  individual  residing  in  this  state  to  give  him  food,  lodging, 
clothing,  or  money,  the  individual  to  whom  such  application 
shall  be  made,  may  require  the  applicant  to  2)erform  a  reason- 
able amount  of  labor  for  such  food,  lodging,  clothing,  or 
money ;  and  if  the  same  be  furnished,  may  detain  him  until 
such  labor  is  performed,  but  not  beyond  the  hour  of  eleven 
o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  the  day  succeeding  his  application; 
■  and  if  such  applicant  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  perform  such 
labor,  being  suited  to  his  age,  strength,  and  capacity,  or  shall 
wilfully  injure  the  person  or  property  of  the  individual 
requiring  the  labor,  he  shall  be  deemed  a  vagrant,  and  shall 
be  committed  to  any  town  workhouse,  or  any  county  work- 
house in  the  county  where  the  offence  shall  have  been  com- 
mitted; or  in  case  there  be  no  such  workhouse  in  the  town 
or  county,  then  to  the  common  jail  in  the  county,  for  a  period 
not  less  than  thirty  days,  nor  more  than  six  months,  and 
until  the  costs  of  prosecution  against  him  be  paid ;  and  upon 
a  second  conviction  of  such  transient  i)erson  for  a  similar 
offence,  he  shall  be  committed  to  such  workhouse  or  common 
jail,  for  a  period  not  less  than  four  months,  nor  more  than 
one  year,  and  until  the  costs  of  prosecution  be  paid.  But 
such  person  may  appeal  from  any  such  order  or  judgment  to 


POLICE    AND    POLICE   REGULATIONS.  141 

the  Superior  Court  next  to  be  holden  in  said  county,  as  pro- 
vided by  law  in  other  criminal  prosecutions. 

Sec.  2.     Every  sheriif  and  deputy  sheriff  in  any  county,  4'///an?'*'°"* 
every  selectman,  constable,  and  grand  juror  in  any  town,  and 
every  executive  officer  in  any  city  or  borough  in  this  state,  _   _ 

may,  within  their  respective  limits,  without  warrant,  arrest 
any  such  transient  person,  and  take  him  forthwith  before  any 
magistrate  having  criminal  jurisdiction,  and  shall  make  a 
written  complaint  to  such  magistrate  of  the  particular  offence 
of  which  such  person  is  suspected,  and  said  magistrate  shall 
proceed  to  hear  said  complaint,  and  on  finding  the  allegations 
true,  shall  render  judgment  against  the  accused  according  to 
the  provisions  of  the  preceding  section,  and  if  no  appeal  be 
taken  from  said  judgment,  said  magistrate  shall  issue  a  war- 
rant, directed  to  any  proper  officer  or  indifferent  person  by 
name,  authorizing  such  officer  or  indifferent  person  to  convey 
said  transient  person  to  said  workhouse  or  jail  in  accordance 
with  said  judgment. 

Sec  3.     The  selectmen  of  any  town  may  appoint  one  or  special  constables, 
more  special  constables  in  each  school  district  in  such  town 
to  carry  out  and  enforce  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Approved,  July  21,  1875. 

IX. 

Section  1.  Each  city  and  town  may  make  regulations  yagr\"ntcwi<iren 
concerning  habitual  truants  from  school,  and  any  children  §§8  k'nd  9.^ ' 
wandering  about  its  streets  or  public  places,  having  no  law- 
ful occupation,  or  business,  nor  attending  school,  and  growing 
up  in  ignorance,  between  the  ages  of  seven  and  sixteen  years ; 
and  such  by-laws,  also,  respeoilig  such  children,  as  shall  con- 
duce to  their  welfare  and  to  public  order,  imposing  suitable 
penalties,  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars  for  any  one  breach 
thereof;  but  no  such  town  by-laws  shall  be  valid,  until  ap- 
proved by  the  Superior  Court  in  any  county. 

Sec  2.     Every  town,  and  the  mayor  and  aldermen  of  every  who  may  prosecute. 
city,  having  such  by-laws,  shall  annually  appoint  three  or 
more  persons,  who  alone  shall  be  authorized  to  prosecute  for 
violations  thereof     All  warrants  issued  upon  such  prosecu-  Jurisdiction. 


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POLICE    AND   POLICE    REGULATIONS. 


tions  shall  be  returnable  before  any  justice  of  the  peace,  or 
judge  of  the  City  or  Police  Court,  of  the  town  or  city ;  who 
shall  receive  such  compensation  as  the  city  or  town  shall 
determine. 


Arrest  of  truants 
without  warrant. 
P.  A.,  1877,  p.  201, 


Sec.  3.  The  police  in  any  city,  and  bailiffs,  constables, 
sheriffs  and  deputy  sheriffs  in  their  respective  precincts,  shall 
arrest  all  boys,  between  eight  and  sixteen  years  of  age,  who 
habitually  wander  or  loiter  about  the  streets  or  public  places, 
or  anywhere  beyond  the  proper  control  of  their  parents  or 
guardians,  during  the  usual  school  hours  of  the  school  term; 
and  may  stop  any  boy  under  sixteen  years  of  age,  during 
such  hours,  and  ascertain  whether  he  be  a  truant  from 
school ;  and  if  he  be,  shall  send  him  to  such  school. 

Sec.  4.  Any  boy  arrested  a  third  time  under  the  j^jrovis- 
ions  of  the  preceding  section,  shall  be  taken,  if  not  immedi- 
ately returned  to  school,  before  the  judge  of  the  criminal  or 
police  court,  or  any  justice  of  the  peace  in  the  city,  borough 
or  town  where  such  arrest  is  made;  and  if  it  shall  appear 
that  such  boy  has  no  lawful  occupation,  or  is  not  attending 
school,  or  is  growing  up  in  habits  of  idleness  or  immorality, 
or  is  an  habitual  truant,  he  may  be  committed  to  any  institu- 
tion of  instruction  or  correction,  or  house  of  reformation  in 
said  city,  borough,  or  town,  or,  with  the  approval  of  the 
selectmen,  to  the  State  Eeform  School,  for  not  more  than 
three  years. 


Warrant  and 

hearing. 

K.S.ip.  128,§12-14 


Sec.  5.  In  all  cases  arising  under  the  provisions  of  the 
■  two  preceding  sections,  a  proper  warrant  shall  be  issued  by 
the  judge  of  the  criminal  court  of  the  city,  or  by  a  justice 
of  the  peace  in  the  borough  or  town,  where  such  arrest  is 
made;  and  the  father,  if  living,  or  if  not,  the  mother  or 
guardian  of  such  boy,  shall  be  notified,  if  such  parent  or 
guardian  can  be  found,  of  the  day  and  time  of  hearing.  The 
fees  of  the  judge  or  justice  shall  be  two  dollars  for  such 
hearing ;  and  all  expenses  shall  be  paid  by  the  city,  borough, 
or  town  in  and  for  which  he  exercises  such  jurisdiction. 


POLICE    AND    POLICE   REGULATIONS.  143 

Sec.  6.     After  the  hearing  in  any  such  case,  such  judge  o^^  fj^^'l^^^"^ 
justice  of  the  peace  may,  at  his  discretion,  indefinitely  sus- 
pend the  rendition  of  judgment. 

Sec  7.     Upon  the  request  of  the  parent  or  guardian  of  any  Ar^^*"'^  ^^g'*"' 

girl  between  eight  and  fifteen  years  of  age,  a  warrant  may  

be  issued  for  her  arrest  in  the  same  manner  and  on  the  same 
conditions  as  is  provided  in  the  preceding  sections  with 
respect  to  boys ;  and  thereupon  the  same  proceedings  may  be 
had,  as  are  above  provided,  except  that  said  girls  may  be 
committed  to  the  Connecticut  Industrial  School  for  Girls. 

X. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  sheriffs,  constables  and  city  police  ^°^^"4*°s''onn- 
officers  to  assist  the  managers,  trustees  and  directors  of  any  p.T.fiMMrsse. 
inebriate  asylum  established  by  law,  in  enforcing  the  powers 
and  duties  now  vested  by  law  in  such  managers,  trustees  and 
directors. 

Approved,  March  27,  1879. 

XI. 

Section  1.  "Whenever  any  boy  under  the  age  of  sixteen  Jefom^S)!" 
years  shall  be  convicted  of  any  crime  or  misdemeanor,  pun-  ^'  ^"  ^''^^'  ^' 
ishable  by  fine  or  imprisonment  other  than  imprisonment  for 
life,  the  court  or  justice  of  the  peace,  as  the  case  may  be, 
may  commit  him  to  the  reform  school,  to  remain  until  he 
shall  arrive  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  unless  sooner 
discharged  by  the  board  of  trustees.  And  the  judges  of  the 
criminal  and  police  courts  of  the  state  and  justices  of  the 
peace  shall  have  power  to  commit  to  the  reform  school :  first, 
any  bo}^  under  sixteen  years  of  age,  who  may  be  liable  to 
'  punishment  by  imprisonment  under  any  existing  law  of  the 
state,  or  any  law  that  may  be  enacted  and  in  force  in  the 
state ;  second,  any  boy  under  sixteen  years  of  age,  with  the 
consent  of  his  parent  or  guardian,  against  whom  any  charge 
of  committing  any  crime  or  misdemeanor  shall  have  been 
made,  the  punishment  of  which,  on  conviction,  would  be  con- 
finement in  jail  or  prison;  third,  any  boy  under  sixteen  years 


144  POLICE    AND    POLICE    REGULATIONS. 

of  age,  who  is  destitute  of  a  suitable  home  and  adequate 
means  of  obtaining  an  honest  living,  or  who  is  in  danger  of 
being  brought  up,  or  is  brought  up,  to  lead  an  idle  or  vicious 
life ;  fourth,  any  boy  under  sixteen  years  of  age,  who  is  incor- 
rigible, or  habitually  disregards  the  commands  of  his  father 
or  mother  or  guardian,  who  leads  a  vagrant  life,  or  resorts  to 
immoral  places  or  practices,  or  neglects  or  refuses  to  perform 
labor  suitable  to  his  years  and  condition,  or  to  attend  school. 


To  remain  till  Sec.  2.     That  cvcry  boy  sent  to  the  reform  school  shall 

twenty-one.  '' 

P.  A.,  1879,  p.  478.  rcmalu  until  he  is  twenty-one  years  of  age,  unless  sooner 
discharged  or  bound  as  an  apprentice ;  but  no  boy  shall  be 
retained  after  the  superintendent  shall  have  reported  him 
fully  reformed. 

Notice  to  be  given  if      Sec.  3.     That  whcnevcr  there  shall  be  as  lar^e  a  number 

accommodations  O 

of  boys  in  the  school  as  can  be  properly  accommodated,  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  to 
give  notice  to  the  criminal  and  police  courts  of  the  fact; 
whereupon  no  boys  shall  be  sent  to  the  school  by  the  said 
courts  until  notice  shall  be  given  them  by  the  president  of 
the  board  that  more  can  be  received. 


accommodations 
insufficient, 


Arrest  of  boy  Sec.  4.     If  auv  pcrsou  shall  entice  or  attempt  to   entice 

escaping  from  said  «/     x  X 

p.'a?!  1881,  p.  66.  away  from  said  school  any  boy  legally  committed  to  the 
same,  or  shall  knowingly  harbor,  conceal,  or  aid  in  harbor- 
ing or  concealing  any  boy  who  shall  have  escaped  from  said 
school,  such  person  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof,  be  deemed 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
ten  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  which  shall  be  paid 
to  the  treasurer  of  the  board  of  trustees ;  and  every  sheriff, 
deputy  sheriff,  constable,  or  officer  of  local  police,  and  any 
officer  or  employee  of  said  school  shall  have  power,  and  it  is 
hereby  made  his  duty  to  arrest  any  boy,  when  in  his  power 
so  to  do,  who  shall  have  escaped  from  said  school,  and  return 
him  thereto. 


I'OLICE   AND   POLICE    REGULATIONS.  145 

XII. 

Section  1.     The  parent  or  guardian  of  any  girl  between  J'XSrsciiooi 
the  affes  of  eiffht  and  sixteen  years,  or  a  selectman  or  p-rand  p."  a.',  ists,'  ^^  ^'^' 

O  ti  J  -)  fc)  pp.  62,64. 

juror  of  the  town  where  she  may  be  found,  may  present  a  p;  ^;;  Jgg;  \,  33?; 
written  complaint  to  the  judge  of  the  Court  of  Probate  for 
the  district  in  which  such  town  is,  or  to  the  judge  of  the 
Police  or  City  Court  of  any  city,  sitting  in  chambers,  where 
she  may  be  found,  or  to  any  justice  of  the  peace  of  such 
town,  alleging  that  she  has  committed  any  offence  within 
the  final  jurisdiction  of  a  justice  of  the  peace,  or  belongs  to 
the  class  specified  in  the  third  section  of  Chapter  YI  of  Title 
XIY,  or  in  the  seventh  and  eighth  sections  of  Chapter  I  of 
Title  XI,  or  that  she  is  leading  an  idle,  vagrant,  or  vicious 
life,  or  is  in  manifest  danger  of  falling  into  habits  of  vice, 
praying  that  she  may  be  sent  tO|the  Connec^^icut  Industrial 
School  for  Grirls,  and  such  judge  or  justice  of  the  peace  shall 
thereupon,  after  notice  to  her  and  such  other  notice  as  he 
may  deem  proper,  inquire  into  said  complaint,  and  on  being- 
satisfied  of  the  truth  of  the  allegations  therein,  may  order 
her  to  be  committed  to  the  guardianship  and  control  of  such 
school,  until  she  shall  arrive  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years, 
unless  sooner  lawfully  discharged,  and  if  he  finds  that  she 
has  committed  an  offence  punishable  by  imprisonment  other 
than  imprisonment  for  life,  she  may  be  sentenced  to* the  Con- 
necticut Industrial  School  for  Girls,  or  judgment  may  be 
suspended,  on  such  terms,  and  for  such  time,  as  he  may 
prescribe ;  and  said  authority  may  issue  a  warrant  for  the 
execution  of  such  sentence.         >K        *        * 

Sec.  2.  Any  proper  officer  may  arrest  within  his  precincts  Arrest. 
any  girl  whom  he  shall  judge  to  be  between  the  ages  of  eight 
and  sixteen  years,  whom  he  shall  find  in  any  imj)roper  place 
or  situation,  and  who  is,  in  his  judgment,  liable  to  be  arrested 
for  any  of  the  offences  specified  in  the  preceding  section,  and 
make  complaint  and  proceed  in  the  same  manner  as  a  parent 
could  do  under  the  provisions  of  the  preceding  section. 

Sec,  3.     Said  authority  shall  tax  the  costs  on  such  com-  costs. 
plaint  and  transmit  a  certified  copy  of  the  items  of  the  same 
to  the  clerk  of  the  Superior  Court  for  the  county  in  which 


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POLICE   AND    POLICE   REGULATIONS. 


Endorsement  < 
mittimus. 


the  trial  was  had,  within  thirty  days  after  the  trial ;  and  if 
approved  by  the  state's  attorney  for  such  county,  it  shall  be 
paid  by  said  clerk,  upon  the  order  of  such  judge  or  justice. 

Sec.  4.  The  authority  committing  any  girl  to  said  school, 
shall  ascertain  as  nearly  as  possible,  and  endorse  on  the  mit- 
timus, her  age,  parentage,  birth-place,  offence,  and  such  other 
facts  relative  to  her  as  may  aid  in  her  proper  care  and 
instruction  in  the  school;  and  the  age  thus  ascertained  shall 
be  taken  as  the  true  age  of  said  girl  with  reference  to  the 
term  of  her  commitment. 


Sale  of  unclaimed 
articles  in  posses- 
sion of  police 
departments. 
P.  A.,  1883,  p.  244. 


Advertisement. 


sposi 
ails. 


XIII. 

Section  1.  The  board  of  police  commissioners,  or  other 
authority  having  charge  of  the  police  department  of  any 
city,  may  sell  at  public  auction  any  and  all  articles  found,  or 
stolen  articles  recovered,  and. any  and  all  articles  which  have 
hitherto,  or  hereafter  may  come  into  the  possession  of  such 
department,  in  the  performance  of  the  duties  of  its  members, 
and  which  have  remained  in  the  possession  thereof  for  one 
year  or  more. 

Sec.  2.  Before  such  sale,  such  authority  shall  cause  the 
time  and  place  thereof,  and  a  description  of  such  of  said 
articles  as  are  of  the  appraised  value  of  five  dollars  or  more, 
to  be  advertised  at  least  once  a  week,  for  four  successive 
weeks,  in  some  daily  newspaper,  published  in  said  city,  if 
any  there  be,  otherwise  in  some  weekly  newspaper  published 
therein. 

Sec.  3.  The  proceeds  of  such  sale,  after  deducting  the  ex- 
penses thereof,  shall  be  paid  to  the  city  treasurer,  who  shall 
keep  the  same  as  a  separate  fund  to  be  used  and  applied  for 
the  relief  of  sick,  injured,  or  disabled  policemen,  and  which 
shall  be  expended  under  the  sole  direction  of  said  commis- 
sioners or  other  authority  in  charge,  and  upon  their  orders 
only. 

Approved,  March  21,  1883. 


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147 


PUBLIC  HEALTH  AND  SAFETY. 


I. 

Fire  marshal. 

XI. 

II. 

Inspection  of  buildings. 

III. 

Safety  of  public  buildings. 

XII. 

IV. 

Exits  ot  halls,  etc. 

XIII. 

V. 

Fire  escapes  on  public  buildings. 

XIV 

VI. 

Inspection  of  gas. 

VII. 

Gas-testing  apparatus. 

XV. 

VIII. 

Supervision  of  dams  and  reser- 

voirs. 

XVI 

IX. 

Inspection  of  burning  fluids. 

X. 

Inspection  of  leather,  hides  and 
skins. 

Common  Council  may  adopt  san- 
itary measures. 

Adulteration  of  food. 

Adulteration  of  milk. 

Registration  of  births,  marriages 
and  deaths. 

Powers  of  health  committee  of 
the  city. 

Powers  of  boards  of  health. 


I. 

Section  1.     The  mayor,  aldermen  and  common  council  of  ^ire marshal. 

■'  K.  S.,  p.  2UO,  9  1-4. 

each  city,  and  the  wardens  and  burgesses  of  each  borough, 
may  appoint  a  fire  marshal,  who  shall  hold  his  office  for  one 
year,  and  may  inquire  into  the  cause  of  any  fire  which  may 
happen  in  the  limits  of  the  corporation  for  which  he  is 
appointed,  on  request  of  a  proper  officer  of  said  corporation, 
or  of  any  one  interested  in  the  property  burned,  at  the 
expense  of  the  applicant;  and  he  may  summon  witnesses  to 
appear  before  him  at  such  times  and  places  as  he  may  desig- 
nate, and  examine  said  witnesses  on  oath  touching  said  fire, 
and  shall  report  the  facts  to  the  clerk  of  said  city  or  borough. 

Sec  2.     When  a  fire  shall  happen  without  the  precincts  of  investigation  by 

■■■-•-  •*■  justice  of  the  peace. 

any  fire  marshal,  any  person  interested  in  the  property 
burned,  may  apply  to  any  justice  of  the  peace  in  the  town 
where  said  fire  has  taken  place,  and  said  justice  shall  proceed 
in  like  manner  as  fire  marshals,  and  file  his  report  in  the 
town  clerk's  office. 

Sec  3.     The  testimony  of  all  witnesses  examined  before  Testimony  to  be  put 

•^  in  writing. 

any  inquest,  shall  be  reduced  to  writing,  and  subscribed  by 
the  witnesses. 

Sec  4.     The  fees  of  such  fire  marshal  or  justice  of  the  Fees. 
peace,  while  engaged  in  investigating  the  cause  of  any  fire, 
as  aforesaid,  shall  be  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents  a  day;  and 
the  fees  for  witnesses,  subpoenas,  and  the  service  of  subpoenas, 
shall  be  the  same  as  are  allowed  in  civil  actions. 


148 


PUBLIC   HEALTH    AND    SAFETY. 


Inspection  of 
buildings. 
S.  A.,  1«80,  p. 


II. 

Section  1.  That  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the 
City  of  Hartford  shall  have  power  to  make,  alter,  and  repeal 
ordinances  providing  for  the  proper  inspection  and  examina- 
tion of  all  walls,  buildings,  and  structures  within  its  limits, 
with  reference  to  their  safety,  and  to  regulate  their  construc- 
tion or  continuance,  and  shall  have  power  to  make,  alter,  and 
repeal  ordinances  to  provide  for  the  maintenance,  repair,  or 
removal  of  all  such  walls,  buildings,  or  structures  as  upon 
examination  and  inspection  shall  be  found  to  be  unsafe  or 
dangerous,  and  to  regulate  or  prevent  the  use  of  heavy  and 
dangerous  machinery  or  the  storage  of  goods,  wares,  and 
merchandise  in  any  building  or  structure  in  a  manner  to 
render  it  dangerous  or  unsafe,  and  to  regulate  or  prevent  the 
exercise  of  any  business  in  any  building  or  upon  any  land  in 
a  manner  to  expose  the  same,  or  the  adjoining  or  neighboring 
property  to  danger  by  fire  or  otherwise. 

Sec.  2.  Said  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  have  power 
in  and  by  said  ordinances  to  provide  for  the  punishment  of 
any  violation  thereof  in  and  by  the  Police  Court  of  said  city 
by  fine  or  imprisonment,  or  both^  or  by  forfeiture  recoverable 
in  the  City  Court  of  said  city. 

Sec  3.  This  act  shall  take  cff'cct  from  and  after  its 
passage. 

Approved,  March  24,  1880. 


III. 


By-laws  regulating 
public  halls,  etc. 


Section  1.  In  all  cities  the  court  of  common  council,  in 
s..  p.  261,  §25-28.  ^Yl  boroughs  the  warden  and  burgesses,  and  in  all  towns  and 
parts  of  towns  not  within  the  limits  of  any  city  or  borough, 
the  selectmen,  shall  require  that  all  public  halls  for  lectures, 
exhibitions,  or  amusements  shall  have  ample  facilities  for 
entrance  and  exit,  and  be  arranged  so  as  to  promote  the 
comfort  and  safety  of  persons  visiting  them,  and  be  closed 
till  such  requisitions  are  complied  with;  and  any  city, 
borough,  or  town  may  make  suitable  by-laws  regarding  the 
same. 


PUBLIC    HEALTH    AND    SAFETY.  149 

Sec.  2.     Evoiy  person  who  shall  let  or  use  any  hall  for  penalty. 
such  purpose,  after  it  shall  have  been  ordered  to  be  so  closed, 
shall  forfeit  one  hundred  dollars  to  the  city,  borough,  or  town 
by  the  authorities  of  which  such  order  was  made. 

Sec.  3.  Any  person  aggrieved  by  any  order  closing  such  ai'gPlele^'Ipartr  - 
hall  may  appeal  therefrom  to  a  judge  of  the  Superior  Court, 
who  shall,  on  notice,  inquire  into  the  facts  by  a  committee  or 
otherwise,  and  may  make  such  order  in  the  premises  as  to 
him  may  seem  proper,  and  tax  costs  in  favor  of  the  prevail- 
ing party  and  issue  execution  therefor. 

Sec.  4.     The  court  of  common  council  of  each  city  shall  Sires  Z%. 

,  .  f,  vent  the  erection  of 

have  power  to  make  ordinances  to  prevent  the  erection  oi  unsafe  buudings. 

unsafe  buildings  therein ;  to  provide  for  the  examination  of 

all  plans  and  specifications  of  proposed  buildings ;  to  provide 

for  the  inspection  of  all  buildings  in  process  of  erection ;  to 

make  general  rules  regarding  the  materials  to  be  used  in 

building,  and  the  strength  and  manner  of  using  the  same;  to 

prohibit  the  erection  of  any  building  not  in  conformity  with 

such  rules,  and  the  plans  and  specifications  of  which  shall 

not  have  been   examined  and  approved  in  accordance  with 

such  ordinances;  and  to  provide  for  the  appointment  of  an  inspector  of 

inspector  of  buildings. 


Section   5.      The   selectmen   of  any  town,   the   court   of  Powers  of  cuy  or 

«'  '  town  authority  as  to 

common  council  of  any  city,  and  the  warden  and  burgesses  Since  Cfafety. 

•^  "^  '  °  p.  A.,  1883,  p."27i. 

of  any  borough,  may,  and  on  the  written  application  of  any 
of  its  inhabitants  shall,  examine  any  building  or  proposed 
building  therein  with  reference  to  its  safety,  after  reasonable 
notice  to  the  owner  or  builder  and  occupant,  and  may  make 
such  written  order  relative  to  its  construction,  maintenance, 
protection,  repairs,  or  removal,  as  they  may  deem  proper; 
a  true  and  attested  copy  of  which  shall  be  left  by  some 
proper  officer  with,  or  at  the  usual  place  of  abode  of,  such 
occupant,  and  such  owner  or  builder,  if  resident  within  this 
state. 


150 


PUBLIC   HEALTH   AND   SAFETY. 


Owner  may  appeal.  Sec.  6.  Such  owner,  builder,  or  occupant  may  appeal 
from  such  order  to  the  Superior  Court  of  the  county  in 
Avhich  said  building  is,  or  to  any  judge  of  said  court  in 
vacation,  by  a  petition,  to  which  shall  be  annexed  a  citation 
to  the  town,  city,  or  borough,  which  shall  be  served  within 
three  days  after  the  service  of  such  order,  and  be  returnable 
within  three  days  after  the  service  of  such  petition;   and 

Action  on  appeal,  upou  such  pctitiou  such  court  or  judge  shall  appoint  three 
disinterested  freeholders  to  view  the  premises  and  report  to 
such  court  or  judge  such  an  order  as  they  may  deem 
expedient  in  reference  thereto,  which  being  accepted  shall 
become  effectual  between  the  parties  to  the  appeal;  and 
said  court  or  judge  may  award  costs  at  discretion. 

Execution  of  final        Sec.  7.     If  auv  fiual  order  shall  not  be  executed  within  ten 

order.  *^ 

days  after  its  service  by  copy,  or,  if  made  on  appeal,  after 
its  acceptance  by  such  court  or  judge,  the  selectmen, 
common  council,  or  warden  and  burgesses  shall  execute  it, 
and  the  person  who  failed  to  comply  with  it  shall  pay  to 
the  town,  city,  or  borough,  the  expense  of  its  execution, 
Penalty.  and  forfoit  not  more  than  one  thousand  dollars,  half  to  said 

town,  city,  or  borough,  and  half  to  any  informer. 
Approved,  April  24,  1883. 


lY. 


exit. 

P.  A.,  1878,  p.  303, 


Churches,  school-        In  all  cltlcs  the  court  of  common  council,  in  all  borous^hs, 

houses,  and  public  '  *-'        ' 

wUh%^i'iwe'8°for*'**  the  warden  and  burgesses,  and  in  all  towns  and  parts  of 

safe  and  speedy  .,.,,..  n 

towns,  not  withm  the  limits  of  any  city  or  borough,  the 
selectmen  shall  require  that  all  churches,  school-houses,  and 
all  public  halls  that  ^re  used  for  lectures,  amusements,  or 
assemblages  of  people,  shall  be  provided  with  ample  facilities^ 
for  safe  and  speedy  exit  in  case  of  necessity.  And  such  court 
of  common  council,  warden  and  burgesses,  or  selectmen,  may 
cause  such  churches,  school-houses,  and  public  halls  to  be 
closed  until  such  requisitions  are  complied  with. 
Approved,  March  27,  1878. 


I 


PUBLIC    HEALTH   AND    SAFETY.  151 

V. 

Section  1.     Every  story  above  the  second  story,  not  in-  J'^^viSo^ceru^^ 
eluding  the  basement,  in  any  workshop,  manufactory,  hotel,  p.TTis&s^p. m. ' 
building  occupied  on  such  story  as  an  assembly  or  lodge-room 
by  any  literary,  benevolent,  or  other  society,  boarding-house  - 

accommodating  more  than  twelve  lodgers,  or  tenement-house 
arranged  for  or  occupied  by  more  than  five  families,  shall  be 
provided  within  six  months  from  the  passage  of  this  act  with 
more  than  one  way  of  egress,  by  stairways  on  the  inside  or 
fire  escapes  on  the  outside  of  the  building,  and  such  stairways 
and  fire  escapes  shall  be  kept  free  from  obstruction  and  shall 
be  accessible  from  each  room  in  said  story. 

Sec.  2.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  first  selectman  of  the  Examination  of 

•^  buildings. 

town,  or  the  fire  marshal  of  the  city,  or  the  warden  of  the 
borough  in  which  any  such  building  is  situated  to  examine 
all  buildings  referred  to  in  the  first  section  of  this  act,  and  if 
on  examination  he  finds  that  such  building  is  provided  with 
fire  escapes  or  stairways,  as  required  by  said  section,  he  shall 
furnish  the  owner  thereof  with  a  certificate  to  that  effect,  in 
which  case  such  owner  shall  not  be  liable  under  this  act. 

Sec.  3.     Every  owner  of  such  building  who  shall  violate  penalty. 
the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  be  fined  fifty  dollars. 
S     Approved,  May  3,  1883. 

VI. 

Section  1.     The  standard  measure  for  the  sale  of  illumi- standard  of  gas. 

R.  S.,  p.  275, 

nating  gas  by  meter  shall  be  the  cubic  foot,  containing  sixty-  ^  ^^^^' 
two  and  three  hundred  and  twenty-one  one-thousandths 
pounds  avoirdupois  weight  of  distilled  or  rain  water,  weighed 
in  air  of  the  temperature  of  sixty-two  degrees  Fahrenheit, 
the  barometer  being  at  twenty-nine  and  one-half  inches ;  and 
no  such  gas  shall  be  merchantable  unless  a  standard  argand 
burner  consuming  five  cubic  feet  of  it  an  hour  shall  give  a 
light  as  measured  by  the  photometric  apparatus  in  ordinary 
use,  of  not  less  than  twelve  sperm  candles,  each  consuming 
one  hundred  and  twenty  grains  an  hour. 


152 


PUBLIC    HEALTH    AND   SAFETY. 


Inspectors  of  gas 
and  gas  meters. 


Gaal 
etc. 


Sec.  2.  The  Grovernor  shall,  every  third  year,  beginning  in 
1877,  appoint  a  resident  of  Hartford  or  New  Haven  an 
inspector  general  of  gas  meters  and  illuminating  gas,  who 
shall  hold  his  office  three  years;  but  the  person  appointed 
during  the  year  1874  shall  hold  his  office  until  September  1, 
1877;  and  the  Governor  may  fill  vacancies  for  the  unexpired 
part  of  any  term.  Said  inspector  general  shall  appoint  a 
deputy  in  every  town  and  city  where  gas  works  are  estab- 
lished, when  requested  by  the  mayor  of  such  city,  the  select- 
men of  such  town,  or  the  warden  of  any  borough  therein. 
The  inspector  general  or  any  of  his  deputies  shall  inspect  and 
prove  the  accuracy  of  every  gas  meter  in  his  town  furnished 
to  any  person  by  a  manufacturer  of  gas,  at  the  request  of  any 
consumer  or  such  manufacturer.  Such  inspection  shall  be 
made  for  a  temperature  of  sixty  degrees  Fahrenheit,  and  at 
the  average  pressure  at  which  gas  is  supplied  in  such  town, 
and  he  shall  stamp  or  mark  every  such  meter  found  not  to 
vary  more  than  two  per  cent,  from  the  standard,  with  some 
suitable  device,  and  his  name,  and  the  date  of  its  inspection. 

Sec.  3.  One  dollar  for  each  meter  so  inspected,  with  the 
cost  of  moving  and  replacing  it,  not  exceeding  fifty  cents, 
shall  be  paid  to  the  officer  inspecting  it,  if  it  be  found  correct, 
by  the  consumer  if  he  requested  such  inspection,  otherwise 
by  the  party  furnishing  the  gas. 
be  inspected,  Qec.  4.  Thc  luspcctor  general  and  his  deputy  shall  inspect 
monthly  the  quality  and  purity  of  illuminating  gas  furnished 
in  his  town  or  any  city  or  borough  therein,  if  requested  by 
the  mayor  of  the  city,  warden  of  the  borough  or  selectmen 
of  the  town,  and  report  to  them  the  result  of  such  inspec- 
tion, for  which  he  shall  be  paid  five  dollars  by  the  town,  city 
or  borough  requesting  it.  When  any  gas  so  furnished  shall 
be  found  upon  such  inspection  to  be  below  the  standard 
value,  on  the  average  for  the  quarter,  the  person  furnishing 
it  shall  make  a  deduction  in  favor  of  the  consumer  from  the 
price  charged  for  gas  of  a  legal  standard,  proportioned  to  the 
inferiority  of  the  gas  as  reported  by  the  inspector. 


Fees  of  inspectors 
of  gas  meters. 


PUBLIC   HEALTH   AND    SAFETY.  153 

YII. 

Section    1.     Any  town,  city,  or   borough,  having   a  gSiS  ilf^sf^Janig^s 
manufactory  established  within  its  limits,  may  appropriate  a  "  A.?i877,  p.  229. 
sum  not  exceeding  three  thousand  dollars  for  the  purchase  of 
proper  apparatus  to   test  gas   and  gas   meters,  and  which 
apparatus  may  be   used  by  the   inspector   general   of  gas 
meters  and  gas,  or  by  his  deputies. 

Sec.  2.  Whenever  any  town,  city,  or  borough  shall  have  ^''^^''^  *° '"^  ^<'*'«''- 
purchased  apparatus  for  the  testing  of  gas  as  provided  in 
section  first,  the  inspector  general  of  gas  meters,  or  his 
deputies,  shall  seal  every  meter  which  shall  be  found  not  to 
vary  more  than  two  per  cent,  from  the  standard  established 
by  law,  and  if  any  party  furnishing  gas  to  consumers  shall 
neglect  or  refuse  to  furnish  such  consumers,  after  request 
made  in  writing,  with  meters  which  have  been  sealed  by. the 
inspector  general  or  one  of  his  deputies,  within  thirty  days 
after  demand  made  by  such  consumer,  such  party  shall  forfeit 
the  sum  of  ten  dollars  per  month  to  any  person  who  shall  sue 
therefor,  and  shall  not  be  entitled  to  recover  by  any  action  at 
law  or  equity  for  any  gas  furnished  to  such  consumers 
through  an  unsealed  meter. 

Sec.  3.  No  illuminating  gas  shall  be  merchantable  unless  standard  or  gas. 
fa  standard  argand  burner  consuming  five  cubic  feet  of  it  an 
hour,  shall  give  a  light  as  measured  by  the  photometric 
apparatus  in  ordinary  use,  of  not  less  than  fifteen  standard 
sperm  candles,  each  consuming  one  hundred  and  twenty 
grains  an  hour. 

Sec  4.     All  acts  inconsistent  with   this   act   are  hereby  Repeal. 
I'cpealed. 

Approved,  March  22,  1877. 


YIII. 

Section  1.     The  member  of  the  board  of  railroad  com- supervisors  of  dams 

and  reservoirs. 

missioners  who  is  a  civil  engineer,  and  one  civil  engineer  ^* '^•' ^"^^' p*  ^*^' 
residing  in  each  congressional  district  in  this  state,  to  be 
appointed  by  him,  shall  constitute  a  board  of  civil  engineers, 
and  have  the  supervision  of  all  dams  and  reservoirs  now 


154  PUBLIC    HEALTH    AND    SAFETY. 

existing  or  hereafter  constructed  in  any  locality  where  by 
the  breaking  away  of  the  same  life  or  property  may  be  in 
danger  of  destruction. 

Inrt^fbel""*"''' "''"'  S^^-  2.  The  members  of  said  board  shall  be  sworn  to 
faithfully  and  impartially  perform  the  duties  imposed  upon 
them  by  this  act,  and  shall  continue  in  office  for  the  term  of 
two  years  and  until  others  are  appointed  in  their  places  and 
stead.  They  shall  each  receive  ten  dollars  per  day  and  all 
necessary  and  reasonable  expenses  while  actually  in  the 
business  of  their  office,  to  be  paid  as  hereinafter  provided. 

S[em^utT  ^" "''"  Sec.  8.  The  mayor  and  aldermen  of  any  city,  the  warden 
and  burgesses  of  any  borough,  the  selectmen  of  any  town  or 
a  majority  of  them,  shall,  upon  the  aj^plication  of  two  or 
more  persons  or  corporations  who  would  sutfer  loss  or 
damage  by  the  breaking  away  of  any  dam  or  reservoir 
within  said  city,  borough,  or  town,  shall  forthwith  inspect 
the  same,  and  if  in  their  opinion  said  dam  or  reservoir  is  not 
sufficiently  strong  and  substantial  to  withstand  the  action  of 
water  under  any  circumstances  which  may  reasonably  be 
expected  to  occur,  they  shall  at  once  notify  one  or  more  of 
the  board  of  civil  engineers  to  inspect  the  said  dam  or 
reservoir  with  them,  and  if  in  the  judgment  of  the  said 
engineers  said  dam  or  reservoir  is  unsafe,  they  shall  serve 
notice  on  the  person  or  persons  owning  or  having  the  care 
and  control  of  the  same,  to  place  said  dam  or  reservoir  in  a 
safe  and  permanent  condition,  under  the  supervision  of  one 
of  the  said  board  of  civil  engineers,  and  when  such  repairs 
are  completed  and  accepted  by  said  civil  engineer,  he  shall 
issue  a  certificate  to  said  owner  or  persons  owning  or  con- 
trolling the  same,  and  also  cause  to  be  recorded  upon  the 
records  of  the  town  in  which  said  dam  is  located,  his  doings, 
with  a  co\)y  of  the  certificate  so  issued ;  but  if  said  engineer 
shall  find  said  dam  or  reservoir  to  be  secure  and  safe,  then 
the  expense  of  such  inspection  shall  be  paid  by  the  town  in 
which  said  dam  or  reservoir  is  located. 

Approval  of  new         Sec.  4.     Whcnevcr  any  person  or  corporation  purpose  con- 
constructions.  ./A  X  XX 

structing  a  dam  or  reservoir  in  a  locality  where  the  life  or 
property  of  any  other  person  may  be  endangered  through 


PUBLIC   HEALTH   AND   SAFETY.  155 

the  insufficiency  thereof,  the  plans  and  specifications  for  such 
dam  or  reservoir  shall  be  submitted  to  any  member  of  said 
board  of  civil  engineers,  who  shall  examine  the  ground 
where  the  dam  or  reservoir  is  to  be  built,  and  the  plans  and 

specifications  therefor,  and  if  he  approve  the  same,  he  shall  

issue  a  certificate  authorizing  the  construction  of  such  dam 
or  reservoir,  and  no  such  dam  or  reservoir  shall  be  con- 
structed without  such  approval  and  certificate. 

Sec.  5.  The  engineer  under  whose  authority  any  dam  or  proS"?A"cw  ^ 
reservoir  is  being  constructed,  shall  cause  the  work  upon  the 
same  to  be  inspected  at  least  three  several  times  before  its 
completion,  and  if  he  shall  be  satisfied  that  such  dam  or 
reservoir  has  been  built  in  a  substantial  and  safe  manner, 
and  in  accordance  with  the  plans  and  specifications  approved 
by  him,  and  is  strong  and  secure,  he  shall  issue  a  certificate 
approving  of  the  same,  which  certificate  shall  be  recorded  in 
the  office  of  the  town  clerk  of  the  town  in  which  such  dam 
or  reservoir  is  located ;  and  no  such  dam  or  reservoir  shall  be 
used  until  such  certificate  is  obtained  and  recorded. 

Sec.  6.     The  compensation  and  expenses  of  the  board  of  Expeisesj,  by  whom 
engineers,  or  any  one  of  them,  when  acting  under  the  provis- 
ions of  sections  three,  four,  and  five  of  this  act,  shall  be  paid 
by  the  persons  or  corporation  owning  or  constructing  the 
dam  or  reservoir. 

Sec.   7.     The   Superior   Court   shall   have  jurisdiction   in  Power  of  superior 
equity,  and  may  make  all  judgments  and  decrees  necessary 
to  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of  the  preceding  sections. 

Sec.  8.     This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage. 

Approved,  March  28,  1878. 

IX. 

Cities,  boroughs,  and  towns  may,  at  any  legal  meeting,  ^^"^p":^'"';f„"|^, 
duly  warned  for  the  purpose,  appoint  inspectors  of  ilhimi- ^•^■'^■''"^*'^'*** 
nating  oils  and  burning  fluids,  and  make  by-laws  regulating 
the  inspection   of  the  same  within  their  respective  limits; 
and  the  inspectors  so  appointed  shall  make  complaint  to  the 


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proper  authority  for  all  infringements  of  the  law  regulating 
the  mixture  or  sale  of  naphtha  and  illuminating  oils.^ 


Inspectors  of 

leather,  hides  and 

skins. 

li.  S.,  p.  274,  §  13. 


X. 

Each  city  may  make  by-laws  regulating  the  inspection  of 
leather,  hides,  and  skins,  within  its  limits,  but  no  j)cnalty 
exceeding  twenty  dollars  shall  be  imposed  for  any  one  viola- 
tion of  any  such  by-laws. 


XI. 

Common  Council         That  thc  Court  of  Commou  Council  of  the  City  of  Hart- 
empowered  to  adoi)t  *' 

TiTyoulTv'ioi.  ford  be,  and  hereby  is,  empowered  to  adopt  such  sanitary 
measures  as,  in  the  judgment  of  said  council,  may  be  neces- 
sary to  protect  the  health  of  said  city.     And  for  that  purpose 

Removal  from  city   to  causc  to  bc  rcmovcd  from  the  limits  of  said  city,  or  from 

limits  ot  certain  •/  ' 

animals  and  trades.  ^^^  ^^^^  thereof,  such  aulmals,  trades,  business,  and  occupa- 
tions as  are,  or  may  become,  injurious  to  the  health  of  the 
residents  of  said  city.  And  to  pass  such  ordinances  as  may 
be  necessary  or  proper  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this 

faUfieT""^*"'"'"*''  ^^*'  ^^^  ^^1  ordinances  heretofore  passed  by  said  council, 
for  protecting  the  health  of  said  city,  and  all  rules  and  regu- 
lations established  by  any  sanitary  board,  or  committee,  in 
pursuance  of  such  ordinances,  and  all  acts  done  by  such  sani- 
tary board  or  committee,  in  carrying  out  such  rules  and 
regulations,  are  hereby  ratified  and  confirmed. 
Approved,  June  30,  1866. 


XII. 


Adulteration  of 

food. 

P.  A.,  1879,  p.  456, 


Section  1.  The  boards  of  health  of  the  several  cities, 
boroughs,  and  towns,  in  this  state,  may  from  time  to  time  at 
their  discretion,  procure  from  any  dealer  in  provisions, 
groceries,  medicines,  or  other  articles  of  consumption,  sam- 
ples of  such  articles,  and  cause  the  same  to  be  analyzed  by 
Analysis  by  board  ouc  of  thc  statc  chcmlsts,  and  if  on  such  analyzation  it  shall 
be  found  that  the  article  analyzed  is  adulterated  with  any 


iCity  not  liable  for  negligence    of   an    inspector  legally  appointed  by  it. 
Mead  v.  New  Haven,  40  Conn.,  72. 


PUBLIC    HEALTH   AND    SAFETY.  157 

deleterious  or  foreign  ingredient  or  ingredients,  other  than  is 
represented  verbally  and  in  a  conspicuous  label  by  the  seller, 
the  chemist  making  the  analysis  shall  issue  his  certificate  certiaoate. 
setting  forth  the  kind  and  quantity,  as  near  as  may  be,  of 

deleterious    and  foreign   ingredients   found   in    the    article         -_ 

analyzed,  and  the  board  of  health  causing  such  analysis  to 
be  made  shall  cause  said  certificate  to  be  published  in  some 
j)aper  published  in  the  city,  borough,  or  town,  or  one  nearest 
thereto,  where  the  article  analyzed  was  obtained,  for  such 
length  of  time  as  they  may  think  proper,  and  the  cost  of 
analysis,  together  with  the  cost  of  the  publication  of  the  <^«»' °f '^"^'y^'^- 
certificate,  shall  be  paid  by  the  person  or  firm  from  whom 
the  article  analyzed  was  obtained;  and  if  such  person  or 
firm  shall  so  elect,  he  or  they  may  annex  to  said  certificate 
his  or  their  sworn  afiidavit  setting  forth  from  whom  the 
article  analyzed  was  purchased  by  him  or  them. 

Sec.  2.  In  all  cases  where  an  analysis  has  been  made  cost  of  analysis, 
according  to  the  provisions  of  section  one,  of  this  act,  and 
the  article  or  articles  analyzed  shall  have  been  found  pure 
and  free  from  foreign  ingredients,  the  cost  of  the  analysis 
shall  be  paid  by  the  city,  borough,  or  town,  whose  board  of 
health,  or  any  officer  thereof,  caused  such  analysis  to  be 
made. 

Approved,  March  28,  1879. 

XIII. 

Section  1.  No  person  shall  sell,  offer,  or  expose  for  sale  Kcguia«"g  sale  of 
any  milk  from  which  the  cream  or  any  part  liiereof  has  been  ^'  ^"  ^^^'  ^'  '^'^^' 
removed,  without  distinctly  and  durably  affixing  a  label,  tag, 
or  mark  of  metal  in  a  conspicuous  place  upon  the  outside, 
and  not  more  than  six  inches  from  the  top  of  every  can, 
vessel,  or  package  containing  such  milk,  and  such  metal 
label,  tag,  or  mark  shall  have  the  words  "Skimmed  Milk" 
stamped,  printed,  or  indented  thereon  in  letters  not  less  than 
one  inch  in  height,  and  such  milk  shall  only  be  sold  or 
retailed  out  of  a  can,  vessel  or  package  so  marked. 

Sec.  2.     No  person  shall  sell  or  offer  for  sale,  or  shall  have 


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Penalty. 


By-laws  concerning 
legistratiou  of 
births,  etc. 
R.  S.,  p.  86,  §  11. 


in  possession  with  intent  to  sell  or  oifer  for  sale,  any  impure 
or  adulterated  milk. 

Sec.  3.  Every  person  who  shall  violate  the  provisions  of 
sections  three  and  four  of  this  act  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of 
a  misdemeanor,  and  on  conviction  thereof  shall  be  fined  not 
more  than  seven  dollars,  or  be  imprisoned  not  more  than 
thirty  days,  or  both. 

XIY. 

Any  town  or  city  may  enact  by-laws,  not  contrary  to  law, 
more  effectually  to  obtain  a  perfect  registration  of  births, 
marriages  and  deaths;  and  the  registrar  of  the  town,  in 
which  such  by-laws  may  be  enacted,  shall  execute  their  pro- 
visions under  the  same  oath  and  penalty  as  if  they  wore  the 
statute  laws  of  the  State. 


Powers  of  health 

oommittec. 

S.  A.,  1874,  p.  88. 


XY. 

The  health  committee  of  the  City  of  Hartford  shall  have 
and  exercise  within  the  territorial  limits  of  said  city,  all  the 
powers  and  duties  now  conferred  by  law  upon  the  board  of 
health  of  the  town  of  Hartford;  and  said  health  committee 
shall  hereafter  exclusively  have  and  exercise  all  the  aforesaid 
powers  and  duties  within  said  city,  in  addition  to  those  now 
vested  in  them  by  the  laws  of  this  state,  and  the  ordinances 
of  said  city. 

Approved,  July  7,  1874. 


Board  of  health. 
R.  8.,  p.  258, 
§§  1-5  and  V-19. 


XYI. 

Section  1.  The  justices  of  the  peace  and  selectmen  in 
each  town,  and  such  reputable  physicians  resident  in  said 
town  as  shall  be  chosen  for  that  purpose  by  said  justices  and 
selectmen,  shall  constitute  a  board  of  health,  and  have  ^Ufl 
the  power  necessary  and  proper  for  preserving  the  public  ' 
health  and  preventing  the  spread  of  malignant  diseases 
therein,  and  may  appoint  its  president  and  such  health 
officers  or  health  committees  as  it  may  deem  expedient,  and 
delegate  to  them  any  of  its  powers,  and  the  members  present 
at  any  meeting  convened  as  the  board  shall  direct,  or  as  by 


PUBLIC    HEALTH    AND    SAFETY.  159 

statute  provided,  shall  be  a  quorum  for  business;  and  may 
appoint  a  clerk,  who  shall  be  sworn  and  shall  record  the  acts 
of  such  board. 

Sec.  2.     Such  board,  or  such  health  officers,  or  health  com-  [l^llXYcerJ". 

.  .      ,  n  •  J  £>   ^1x1,    anrt  to  remove  them. 

mittees  shall  examine  into  all  nuisances  and  sources  oi  tilth  —  . 

injurious  to  the  public  health  and  cause  to  be  removed  all 
filth  found  within  the  town,  which  in  their  judgment  shall 
endanger  the  health  of  the  inhabitants ;  and  all  expenses  for 
such  removal  shall  be  paid  by  the  person  who  placed  it  there, 
if  known,  and  if  not  known,  by  the  town;  and  when  any 
such  filth  or  nuisances  shall  be  found  on  private  property, 
such  board  shall  notify  the  owner  or  occupant  of  such  prop- 
erty to  remove  the  same  at  his  expense,  within  such  time  as 
the  board  shall  direct ;  and  if  he  shall  neglect  to  remove  it, 
he  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  twenty  dollars  nor  exceeding  fjjp„^^^'f;  "^ 
one  hundred  dollars,  and  pay  such  expense  and  costs  as  the 
town  shall  incur  by  such  removal;  and  after  the  expiration 
of  such  time,  such  board  shall  cause  such  filth  or  nuisance 
forthwith  to  be  removed  or  abated ;  and  such  board,  or  such 
health  officer  or  committee  as  it  shall  direct,  may  enter  all  pi^ce^^^usScted  or 

containing  filth. 

places,  where  such  board  shall  have  just  cause  to  suspect  any 
such  nuisances  or  causes  of  filth  to  exist. 

ft'  Sec.  3.     It  shall  be  sufficient  ilotice  to  all  persons  of  any  Notices. 

^'egulation  of  such  board,  if  it  be  published  in  a  newspaper 
published  in  the  town,  or  posted  for  three  days  on  each  sign- 
post in  said  town;  and  if  any  person  shall  wilfully  violate 
such  rules,  after  they  have  been  so  published  or  posted,  or 
after  actual  notice  thereof  shall  have  been  given  to  him,  he 
shall  be  fined  not  less  than  fifteen  dollars,  nor  exceeding  one  penalty. 
hundred  dollars. 

Sec.  4.  The  board  of  health,  in  any  town  contiguous  to  Quarantine, 
navigable  waters,  may  assign  within  the  town,  or  the  waters 
contiguous  thereto,  the  port  or  place  in  any  harbor,  road, 
river  or  bay,  where  vessels  coming  into  the  limits  of  such 
town  or  into  such  contiguous  waters,  shall,  if  need  be,  per- 
form quarantine ;  and  every  vessel  which  shall,  between  the 
first  day  of  June  and  the  first  day  of  November,  come  from 
any  foreign  port  or  place,  or  from  any  port  or  place  in  the 


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What  vessels  are 
not  subject  to 
quarantine. 


Vessels  from 
northern  home 
ports. 


Duty  of  health 
officers  on  arrival  of 
such  vessel. 


Certificates  of 
health. 


United  States  south  of  the  capes  of  the  Delaware,  and  come 
to  anchor  in  any  such  harbor,  road,  bay,  river  or  contiguous 
waters,  if  any  place  for  quarantine  shall  have  been  assigned 
as  aforesaid,  shall  come  to  anchor  and  lie  at  such  place  so 
assigned,  and  at  no  other  place,  until  discharged  in  manner 
as  is  hereinafter  provided;  and  the  master  of  every  vessel 
coming  to  anchor  as  aforesaid  shall  forthwith  make  signal 
for  a  health  officer  by  hoisting  colors  in  the  shrouds,  or,  if 
need  be,  may  send  a  person  on  shore,  who  shall  notify  the 
health  officer  of  the  port,  or  if  there  be  no  health  officer,  a 
member  of  the  board  of  health,  of  the  arrival  of  such  vessel, 
and  forthwith  return  on  board;  but  the  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  not  apply  to  any  such  vessel  which  shall  have 
entered  any  port  or  place  in  the  United  States  north  of  said 
capes,  where  there  are  quarantine  regulations,  and  been 
visited  by  a  health  officer,  received  a  clean  bill  of  health,  and 
been  permitted  to  go  to  the  wharves  and  unload  thereat; 
and  such  clean  bill  of  health,  or  a  certified  copy  thereof, 
shall  be  left  with  the  collector  of  the  port  within  twenty- 
four  hours  after  the  arrival  of  such  vessel. 

Sec.  5.  When  the  board  of  health  in  any  town  shall  deem 
it  expedient  that  vessels  arriving  in  its  town  or  in  the  waters 
contiguous  thereto,  from  a*ny  port  or  place  in  the  United 
States,  north  of  the  capes  of  the  Delaware,  should  perform 
quarantine,  such  board  may  by  an  order,  published  or  posted 
as  aforesaid,  subject  such  vessels  to  quarantine  in  the  same 
manner  as  if  they  arrived  from  a  foreign  port  or  place. 

Sec.  6.  On  notice  given  to  a  health  officer  or  member  of 
the  board  of  health  of  the  arrival  of  any  vessel  as  aforesaid, 
he  shall  visit  it  without  delay,  and  may,  on  examination,  give 
a  certificate  of  health,  discharging  it  from  quarantine,  or 
cause  it  to  continue  subject  to  quarantine;  and  every  vessel 
so  subjected  to  quarantine  shall  perform  quarantine  under 
the  regulations  of  such  board  of  health. 

Sec.  7.  The  board  of  health  may  establish  the  fees,  not 
exceeding  five  dollars,  which  the  health  officer  shall  be 
entitled  to  receive  for  visiting  a  vessel  as  aforesaid,  and  the 


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3?UBLIC   HEALTH   AND   SAFETY.  161 

master  or  owner  of  such  vessel  shall  pay  the  same  to  such 
health  officer. 

Sec.  8.     No  master  of  any  vessel,  liable  to  perform  quaran-  f„^g°f^*Ji^"rte*q3n; 
tine  as  aforesaid,  shall  fraudulently  attempt  to  elude  a  quar-  "°''' 
antine  by  false  declarations  of  the  port  or  place  from  whence        ^         ~^ 
he  came,  or  land,  or  suffer  to  be  landed  from  his  vessel  any 
person  or  thing  except  in  the  manner  hereinbefore  provided, 
nor  permit  any  person  to  board  such  vessel,  before  it  shall 
have  been  visited  as  aforesaid. 

Sec.  9.  When  a  health  officer  or  member  of  the  board  of  J^/^'^;;';.  o^^f ^  ;j;f y 
health,  shall,  on  visiting  any  vessel  as  aforesaid,  think  it "  ^*"'*'' '  ""'■ 
necessary  that  it  should  be  cleansed  or  purified,  he  shall 
direct  its  master  to  hoist  a  white  flag  on  the  head  of  the 
mainmast,  there  to  be  kept  during  the  daytime;  and  shall 
apply  without  delay  to  the  board  of  health  to  direct  the  time 
and  manner  in  which  the  cargo  on  board  such  vessel  shall  be, 
in  part  or  in  whole,  cleansed  or  purified ;  and  such  vessel,  or 
such,  part  thereof  as  may  be  infected,  shall  be  cleansed  in 
such  method  as  such  board  shall  direct.  And  when  such 
vessel  shall  contain  any  person  ill  of  a  contagious  or  infec- 
tious disease,  he  shall  be  removed  on  shore  to  such  place  as  persona  diseased  to 

'  •*■  be  removed  and 

said  board  may  direct,  and  nursed  and  provided  for,  in  the  '^'''"'*'''^- 
manner  prescribed  by  law.  And  such  board  may  also  cause 
fcany  passenger  on  board,  and  such  of  the  mariners  as  the 
master  shall  not  require  to  continue  on  board,  to  be  removed 
on  shore  and  secluded  for  fourteen  days,  in  such  place  as  the 
board  shall  direct ;  and  if  any  person  shall,  without  such  per- 
mission, visit  any  person  so  confined,  he  shall  be  deemed  to  Penalty  for  escap- 

'  ^     ^  '  ing  or  associating 


with  those  who 


be  contaminated  with  infection,  and  be  liable  to  the  same  escape. 
confinement  and  penalty  as  are  imposed  upon  the  person 
visited. 

Sec.  10.  If  the  board  of  health  shall  find  that  any  certifi-  f/i'^'^S^^^^^aud  or 
cate  of  health  granted  by  them  was  obtained  by  fraud  or  ""'*'"'• 
false  representation,  or  be  of  opinion  that  any  vessel,  person, 
or  cargo,  should  perform  further  quarantine  for  the  purpose 
of  being  cleansed  or  purified,  on  notice  thereof  being  given 
by  the  board  to  such  person,  or  the  owner,  master,  super- 
cargo or  consignee,  of  such  vessel  or  cargQ,  as  the  case  may 


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■ 


Board  may  interdict 
nnninuiuication  with 
infected  places. 


Taverners  to  g 
notice  of  sick 
lodgers. 


How  board  ma.v 
enforce  its  orders. 


t"tnes,  how 
appropriated. 


Persons  sick  of  con- 
tagious disease  may 
he  confined. 


Rules  for  vaccina- 
tion. 


be,  the  same  shall  in  all  respects  be  liable  to  be  proceeded 
with  in  the  same  manner  as  if  no  certificate  of  health  had 
been  given. 

Sec.  11.  The  board  of  health  of  any  town  may  interdict 
communication  between  it  and  any  other  town  or  place  in 
which  any  contagious  or  malignant  disease  is  prevalent. 

Sec.  12.  Every  taverner  or  lodging-house  keeper,  in  whose 
house  any  lodger  becomes  sick  of  any  malignant  or  conta- 
gious disease,  between  the  first  day  of  May  and  the  first  day 
of  November,  shall  within  twelve  hours  after  such  lodger  be- 
comes sick,  report  in  writing  to  the  board  of  health  or  health 
officer,  the  name  of  such  person  if  known,  and  the  nature 
of  his  disorder. 

Sec.  13.  When  any  person  shall  refuse  to  obey  any  legal 
order  given  by  a  board  of  health,  or  shall  endeavor  to  pre- 
vent it  from  being  carried  into  effect,  any  justice  of  the  peace, 
on  the  request  of  such  board,  may  issue  his  warrant  to  any 
proper  officer,  or,  if  need  be,  to  any  indifferent  person,  therein 
stating  such  order,  and  requiring  him  to  carry  it  into  effect, 
and  such  officer  or  indifferent  person  shall  execute  the  same. 

Sec.  14.  All  fines  imposed  for  the  violation  of  any  provis- 
ion of  this  Chapter  relating  to  public  health,  or  regulation  of 
any  board  of  health,  shall  be  paid  to  the  town  in  which  the 
offence  is  committed,  and  constitute  a  fund  in  such  town, 
subject  only  to  the  order  of  such  board,  to  be  by  it  applied  to 
its  contingent  expenses,  and  to  the  relief  of  such  poor  per- 
sons in  the  town  as  may  be  ill  with  malignant  or  infectious 
disease,  or  to  the  prevention  of  such  disease. 

Sec.  15.  The  board  of  health  in  any  town  may  order  any 
person,  whom  they  may  have  reasonable  ground  to  believe  to 
be  infected  with  any  malignant,  infectious,  or  contagious  dis- 
ease, into  confinement  in  any  place  to  be  designated  by  said 
board,  there  to  remain  so  long  as  said  board  shall  judge  nec- 
essary. 

Sec.  16.  Boards  of  health  may  adopt  such  measures  for 
the  general  vaccination  of  the  inhabitants  of  their  respective 
towns  as  they  shall  deem  proper  and  necessary  to  prevent 
the  introduction  or  arrest  the  progress  of  small-pox,  and  the 


RAILROADS.  163 

expenses  in  whole  or  in  part  of  such  general  vaccination  shall 
upon  their  order  be  paid  out  of  the  town  treasury.  , 

Sec.  17.     Every  person  who  shall  refuse  to  be  vaccinated,  ia"g{^\Vc'vaIrJiua[ed; 
or  prevent  any  person  under  his  care  and  control  from  being 
vaccinated,  on  application  being  made  by  any  member  of  the  ^ 

l)oard  of  health,  or  by  a  physician  employed  by  the  board  of 
health  for  that  purpose,  unless,  in  the  opinion  of  another 
physician,  it  would  not  be  prudent  on  account  of  sickness, 
shall  forfeit  five  dollars  to  the  town  where  the  oifence  shall 
be  committed. 

Sec.  18.     Every  person  who  shall  violate  any  provision  of  G'^"'^'^'^^  pouu,u.v. 
the  preceding  sections  of  this  Chapter,  or  legal  order  of  a 
board  of  health  for  which  no  other  penalty  is  provided,  shall 
be  fined  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars,  or  imprisoned 
not  exceeding  six  months,  or  both. 


RAILEOADS. 


I.    Horse  railroad  regulations.  I II.    Abatement  of  assessment  on  horse 

I  railroad  companies. 


I. 

Section  1.     No  horse  railroad  company  shall  use  steam  for  l';;,^'^^!;^'^'" 
motive  power. 

Sec.  2.  The  use  of  any  improved  motive  power  for  draw-  ^^'^^11"^^''''  ^""""^ 
ing  passenger  cars  on  any  horse  railroad,  other  than  that  f(f-6auf^u. 
furnished  by  locomotives,  dummies,  or  box  engines  used  on 
steam  railroads  on  the  first  day  of  January,  1875,  may  be 
permitted  and  regulated,  in  any  city  by  the  mayor  and  com- 
mon council;  in  any  borough,  by  the  warden  and  burgesses; 
and  in  any  part  of  a  town  not  included  in  any  city  or  bor- 
ough, by  the  selectmen;  subject  to  revocation  by  the  author- 
ity granting  the  same,  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  its  members. 


164  RAILROADS. 


I 


Ba^^s.^how  laid,  and  Sec.  3.  N'o  sucli  compaiiy  shall  lay  down  its  rails  upon 
any  highway,  except  in  the  manner  prescribed  by  the  com- 
mon council  of  the  city,  if  the  same  be  in  any  city,  otherwise 
by  the  selectmen  of  the  town  in  which  such  rails  are  laid ; 
and  such  common  council  or  selectmen  may  prescribe  the 
form  of  rail  to  be  used  in  the  construction  of  such  railroad, 
and  the  plan  and  form  of  the  curves  in  its  tracks  or  branch 
road  for  turning  street  corners ;  and  may  permit  said  com- 
pany to  change  the  form  of  rail  prescribed  in  its  charter;  but 
if  any  such  company  shall  be  aggrieved  by  such  action  of 
the  common  council  or  selectmen,  it  may  appeal  by  petition 
to  the  Superior  Court  in  the  county,  which  may  confirm, 
annul,  or  modify  such  action. 

Companies  to  keep       Sec.  4.     Evcrv  such  couipauy  shall  ffrade  and  keep  in  re- 

the  track  iu  repair,  "^  i.         J  a  1 

'^^'  pair  the  railroad  track  and  way,  and  the  surface  of  the  street 

adjoining  the  rails  of  its  railroad,  for  a  space  not  less  than 
two  feet  in  width  on  each  side  of  each  rail;  and  construct 
all  crosswalks  so  that  all  vehicles  can  conveniently  cross  or 
turn  off  from  such  track ;  and  in  case  of  injury  to  any  per^ 

City  or  towu  not      SOU,  auluial  Or  vehicle,  arisinij;  from  any  defect  in  the  a;radinff 

liable  for  detect  in  '  :>  O  ^  »  O 

raifroadTrS.*^  *'^  or  repair  of  such  railroad  track,  or  way,  or  such  part  of  the 
surface  of  such  street,  no  action  shall  be  maintained  against 
such  city  or  town  therefor. 

rrffetfi^'how""  ^^^-  ^-  ^^  ^^y  ^Vioh  company  shall  neglect  to  repair  any 
track,  highway  or  crosswalk,  as  required  in  the  preceding 
section,  for  thirty  days  after  the  common  council  or  select- 
men shall  have  ordered  such  repairs  to  be  made,  then  such 
common  council  or  selectmen  may  make  such  repairs,  and 
the  city  or  town,  as  the  case  may  be,  may  collect  the  expense 
from  said  company. 

Snow  not  to  be  Sec.  6.     No  such  companv,  havin<>-  a  track  in  any  hiiJ-hway 

removed  from  track  i.         »/  J  o  %/  O  ./ 

in  city  highway.  ^^^^^.^  jg  ^^^^^q^.  ^j^^  coutrol  of  thc  authoritics  of  any  city, 
shall  remove  the  snow  which  shall  fall  uj^on  said  track,  if  it 
is  of  sufficient  depth  to  allow  vehicles  to  pass  over  the  road 
on  runners,  without  consent  in  writing,  first  obtained  of  the 
mayor  of  the  city. 

Snow  not  to  be  Sec.  7.     No  horsc  rallroad  company  shall  allow  any  snow 

thrown  on  sidewalls,  x         ./  t/ 

''^'  SO  removed  from  its  track  to  be  placed  upon  any  sidewalk  or 


I 


RAILROADS.  165 

paved  gutter,  or  where  it  obstructs  or  cndiingers  public 
travel. 

Sec.  8.     No  such  company  shall  sprinkle  any  article  of  a  ^^^^Z'ZtS, 
decomposing  nature  on  its  tracks  or  rails,  or  wash  them  with 
brine  or  pickle,  or  allow  it  to  be  done,  for  the  purpose  of 
melting  the  snow  thereon,  without  written  permission  from  ^^       " 

the  first  selectman  of  the  town,  or  from  the  mayor  of  the 
city,  where  the  city  authorities  have  the  control  of  highways, 
in  which  such  track  is  located;  and  no  officer  of  any  such 
company  shall  knowingly  permit  the  snow  to  be  removed 
from  its  track,  or  the  track  or  rails  to  be  sprinkled  or  washed 
with  any  article  of  a  decomposing  nature. 

Sec.  9.     Every  person  who  shall  wilfully  hinder  any  such  Slufuug  track. 
company,  in  the  use  of  its  roads  or  tracks,  shall  for  every 
such  offence  be  fined  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  or  imprisoned 
not  exceeding  three  months,  or  both. 

Sec.  10.  Every  person  who  shall,  without  the  consent  ^^  ll^^l^J^a^i^i^^ 
such  comi)any,  use  upon  any  horse  railroad  any  vehicle  with  senforcompauy"' 
running  gear  fitted  for  the  track  of  such  road,  and  ditterent 
from  vehicles  ordinarily  used  on  other  highways,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  conveying  passengers  for  hire  upon  the  track  of  such 
road,  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars,  or  im- 
prisoned not  exceeding  three  months,  or  both. 

fe 

The  board  of  aldermen  of  any  city,  and  in  cities  where  Abatement  of 

•/  o  '  assessmeut  ou 

there  is  no  board  of  aldermen,  the  common  council,  and  the  paLlL?*  '*** 

'  _  '  K.  S.,p.91,  §7. 

board  of  selectmen  of  any' town,  which  has  control  of  the 
highways  therein,  may  abate  in  whole  or  in  part  any  assess- 
ment laid  upon  any  horse  railroad  company,  or  its  property, 
or  the  person,  persons  or  corporation  owning  or  operating 
any  such  horse  railroad,  on  account  of  such  property,  and 
may  discharge  in  whole  or  in  part  any  lien  created  by  such 
assessment,  or  connected  therewith ;  and  such  abatement  and 
discharge  shall  be  by  resolution,  specifying  the  particular 
assessment  and  lien,  and  a  certified  copy  thereof  shall  be 
recorded  in  the  records  of  such  liens. 


166 


REWARDS  —  TAXATION. 


KEWAEDS. 


Rewards. 

S.  A.,  vol.  «,  p.  16. 


Section  1.  The  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford  may  offer  suitable  rewards  for  the  apprehension 
and  conviction  of  such  person  or  persons  as  shall  have  com- 
mitted, or  shall  commit  crimes  within  the  limits  of  said  city. 

Sec.  2.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved,  June  19,  1876. 


TAXATION. 


II. 
III. 


IV. 
V. 


Limitation  of  taxation  on  certain 

property. 
Same  subject. 
General  provisions  for  collection  of 

taxes. 
Term  of  ofllce  of  city  collector. 
Collector  to  turn  over  uncollected 

rate  bills  to  his  successor. 


VI.    Continuance  of  tax  liens. 
VII.    Foreclosure  of  tax  liens. 
VIII.    Same  subject. 
IX.    Correction  of  tax  assessments  and 

collection  by  suit. 
X.    Form  of  tax  warrant. 


City  taxes. 

3.  A.,  vol.  5.  i>. 


Karmiiig  lauds 
exempt. 


Personal  property 
exempt. 


I. 

That  no  city  tax  exceeding  two  cents  on  a  dollar  of  the 
grand  list  computed  according  to  the  system  heretofore  in 
use  in  this  state,  shall  be  assessed  or  levied  upon  any  land  or 
lands  within  the  area  and  territory  annexed  to  and  incorpo- 
rated with  the  City  of  Hartford,  by  virtue  of  an  act  entitled 
"An  act  extending  the  limits  of  the  City  of  Hartford," 
approved  June  22,  1853,  so  long  as  said  land  is  or  shall  bo 
used  exclusively  for  farming  purposes,  or  is  vacant  and  unoc- 
cupied land ;  and  that  all  farming  produce,  and  all  stock  used 
in  farming,  and  all  implements  of  husbandry  belonging  to 
persons  residing  on  said  territory  so  annexed,  shall  be  exempt 
in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent,  from  such  city 
taxation ;  and  that  the  persons  now  and  hereafter  residing  on 


I 


TAXATION.  l67 

said  territory  so  added  to  said  city,  and  the  estate  of  such  what  property  not 

'J  •'  '  liable  for  bonded 

persons,  hoth  real  and  personal,  shall  not  be  liable  by  taxa-  **""*'■ 
tion,  or  in  any  other  mode,  for  any  bonded  debt  of  said  city, 
or  for  interest  on  the  same,  contracted  in  aid  of  any  railroad 
company ;  provided,  that  this  resolution  shall  not  be  so  con-  Property  in  buM^ 

J-  "    '    -*^  '  ness  in  city  not 

strued  as  to  exempt  from  liability  any  property  invested  in  ''''^'"'"• 
business  in  said  city  and  now  liable  to  taxation  for  said  city 
debt.** 

Approved,  June  15,  1860. 

II. 

That  no  city  tax  exceeding  six-tenths  of  one  mill  on  a  ,'^^a;^^°°/*j;^y''jf^.j^ 
dollar  of  the  grand  list  shall  be  laid  or  levied  upon  any  land  s™A.%oi.'6""p.  sie. 
or  lands  within  the  present  limits  of  the  City  of  Hartford  so 
long  as  said  land  is  or  shall  be  exclusively  used  for  farming 
purposes,  and  has  a  market  value  not  exceeding  six  hundred 
dollars  an  acre;  and  no  other  land  shall  be  so  exempt  by 
reason  of  any  provisions  of  said  charter.^ 

Approved,  July  26,  1867. 


f  III. 

Section  1.     All  taxes  laid  by  either  the  town  or  the  City  Town  »nd  city 

•^  "     taxes,  when 

of  Hartford  shall  be  payable  and  collectible  on  or  before  the  K!\W,  p.  728, 

§  87-99. 

fifteenth  day  of  July  next,  after  the  same  are  laid,  and  if 
paid  on  or  before  said  day,  two  per  cent,  discount  shall  be 
allowed  thereon,  and  no  discount  shall  be  allowed  thereafter.  Discount. 
On  all  such  taxes  remaining  due  and  unpaid  after  the  first 
day  of  August  next  after  the  same  are  laid,  one  per  cent, 
shall  be  added  and  made  collectible,  as  a  part  of  such  tax,  and  Addition. 
a  further  sum  of  one  per  cent,  shall  be,  in  like  manner,  added 
and  made  collectible,  on  the  first  day  of  each  succeeding 
month  thereafter,  until  such  tax  is  paid. 

Sec.  2.     The  collector,  or  collectors  of  each  of  the  aforesaid  Notice, 
taxes,  shall,  on  or  before  the  fifth  day  of  July  in  each  year, 

"Concerning  taxation    of    farming  lands,   see  Gillette  v.   City  of   Hartford, 

31  Conn.,  351. 

1  For  similar  exemptions,  see  pp.  2,  39-42. 


16S 


TAXATION. 


give  written  or  printed  notice  to  each  tax-payer  on  his  rate- 
bill,  stating  the  amount  of  his  tax,  and  that  the  same  is  due 
and  payable  at  the  office  of  such  collector;  and  such  notice 
shall  also  contain  a  copy  of  the  preceding  section  of  this  act, 
or  a  full  and  plain  abstract  thereof,  and  they  shall  also  further 

Publication.  publish,  ou  or  before  said  fifth  day  of  July,  and  continue  such 

IDublication  daily,  until  the  fifteenth  day  of  said  July,  a  like 
notice,  except  as  to  the  amount  of  such  tax,  in  at  least  two 
daily  newspapers,  published  in  said  town  or  city. 

Further  notice.  Qec.  3.     Each  collcctor  aforesaid   shall,  on  or  before  the 

tenth  day  of  December,  in  each  year,  give  further  notice, 
written  or  printed,  to  each  tax-payer  on  his  rate  bill,  whose 
tax  shall  then  remain  due  and  unpaid,  that  unless  the  same  is 
paid  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  January  next  succeeding, 
the  same  with  all  accrued  and  accruing  additional  percentage, 
will  be  immediately  thereafter  collected  by  warrant  of  dis- 
tress, together  with  twenty-five  cents  fees  for  such  notice, 
and  fifty  cents  fees  for  such  warrant,  which  additional  per- 
centages and  fees,  it  shall  be  lawful  to  add  and  collect. 

Sec.  4.  A  written  or  printed  notice,  deposited  in  the  post- 
office  in  said  Hartford,  addressed  to  the  tax-payer  at  the 
post-office  delivery  within  which  he  resides,  where  the  same 
is  known,  or  actual  notice,  written  or  printed,  given  in  any 
other  manner,  shall  be  sufficient  notice  under  this  act;  but 
no  notice,  other  than  that  required  to  be  publicly  advertised, 
shall  be  held  or  construed  to  be  an  essential  legal  prerequisite 
for  the  enforced  collection  of  any  of  said  taxes. 

Delayed  city  tax.  Sec.  5.  lu  casc  thc  layiug  of  either  the  town  or  city 
annual  tax,  for  the  current  year,  and  the  appointment  of  a 
rate-maker  shall  be  delayed  from  any  cause  beyond  the  firsi 
day  of  May,  then  the  same,  if  it  be  the  town  tax  and  rate- 
maker,  shall  be  laid  and  appointed,  by  the  board  of  selectmen 

Ratemaker.  of  Said  towu,  aud  if  it  be  the  city  tax  and  rate-maker,  shall 

be  laid  and  appointed  by  the  City  Court  of  said  city,  on  oral 
before  the  tenth  day  of  May,  then  next  succeeding,  and  said 
board  of  selectmen  and  said  City  Court  shall  severally  fill  all 
vacancies,  which  may  occur  respectively  in  the  office  of  rate- 
maker. 


Warrant. 


ulflclent  notice. 


I 


TAXATION.  •  169 

Sec.   6.     The   rate-makers   shall,  immediately  after  their  ^^«|^\°f  '»*«- 
appointment,  j^roceed  to  make  out  their  respective  rate  bills, 
iind  shall  complete  an(i  deliver  the  same  to  their  respective 
collectors,  on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of  June,  next  succeeding. 

Sec.  7.     The  collectors  of  said  town  and  city  taxes  shall  Jo*;][™?o1t""''-^ - 
hold  their  respective  offices  for  the  term  of  two  years,  and 
until  their  successors  shall  be  duly  chosen  and  qualified  in 
their  stead. 

Sec.  8.  Whenever  a  vacancy  shall  exist,  by  death,  removal,  Sarged.^*"^ 
resignation,  or  otherwise,  in  the  office  of  either  of  said  col- 
lectors, the  remaining  collector  shall  discharge  all  the  duties 
of  said  vacant  office  for  the  unexpired  portion  of  the  term ; 
and  in  case  a  vacancy  shall  exist  as  aforesaid,  in  both  of  said 
offices,  the  same  shall  be  filled  for  the  unexpired  portion  of  ='*''^ '"'^*- 
said  term,  by  a  major  vote  of  the  selectmen  of  the  said  town, 
and  the  aldermen  of  said  city,  at  a  meeting  specially  called 
and  warned  by  the  mayor  of  the  city  for  that  purpose. 

Sec  9.  The  first  selectman  of  said  town,  and  the  mayor  collectors omce. 
of  said  city,  shall  locate  and  provide  a  suitable  office  for  the 
payment  and  collection  of  the  respective  town  and  city  taxes, 
.the  expense  of  which  shall  be  borne  equally  between  said 
■town  and  city ;  and  said  respective  collectors  shall  keep  said  ^^^^^^^^  h"""- 
office  open,  and  be  therein  in  attendance,  for  the  transaction 
of  all  business  connected  with  their  respective  offices,  at  all 
reasonable  times,  between  the  hours  of  nine  o'clock  in  the 
forenoon,  and  four  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  on  all  ordinary 
business  days. 

Sec  10.  The  said  collectors  shall  be  allowed  annually  in  compensation  or 
lieu  of  all  other  compensation  for  the  collection  of  said  taxes, 
the  sum  of  three  thousand  dollars,  payable  quarterly,  and 
the  portion  of  said  sum,  payable  to  each  collector,  shall  bear 
the  same  proportion  to  the  whole  sum,  as  the  whole  amount 
of  his  rate  bills  bears  to  the  whole  aggregate  amount  of  the 
rate  bills  of  both  the  town  and  city  for  the  current  year,  to 
1)6  computed  and  ascertained,  by  the  clerk  or  clerks  of  said 
town  and  city,  for  the  time  being,  within  one  month  after 
such  rate  bills  shall  have  been  completed. 

Sec  11.     Whenever  a  complaint  shall  be  made  in  writing  ^^'Jl^^J^.*' '^s*""'* 


170 


TAXATION. 


Payments  to 
treasurer. 


Collectors. 
P.  A.,  1878, 
^§  3  and  4. 


Terms  of  office. 


Other  officers. 


Appointments  of 
rate-makers. 


by  a  majority  of  the  selectmen  of  said  town,  against  any  col- 
lector of  said  town  taxes,  or  by  a  majority  of  the  aldermen 
of  said  city,  against  any  collector  of  said  city  taxes,  to  any 
judge  of  the  Superior  Court  for  incapacity,  neglect,  fraud, 
malfeasance  in  office,  said  judge,  upon  due  order  of  notice, 
may  summon  such  collector  to  appear,  and  upon  full  hearing, 
may  remove  such  collector  from  his  said  office. 

Sec,  12.  The  collector  of  each  of  the  taxes,  in  the  town  or 
City  of  Hartford,  shall  give  bonds,  with  sufficient  surety  in 
the  penal  sum  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  for  the  faithful 
discharge  of  the  duties  of  his  office,  which  bond  shall  be  exe- 
cuted to  the  satisfaction  of  the  board  of  selectmen  of  said 
town,  in  case  of  the  town  tax  collector,  and  to  the  satisfaction 
of  the  mayor  of  said  city,  in  case  of  the  city  tax  collector. 

Sec.  13.  Each  of  said  collectors  shall  pay  over  to  the 
treasurer  of  said  town  or  city,  by  whom  his  tax  collections 
are  receivable,  on  the  first  Monday  in  each  month,  all  moneys 
by  him  collected  on  such  taxes,  up  to  the  time  of  such  pay- 
ment. 

IV. 

Section  1.  In  the  town  of  Hartford  and  City  of  Hartford 
the  term  of  office  of  the  collectors,  including  the  collector  of 
said  town  elected  in  October,  1877,  shall  commence  on  the  first 
Monday  of  May  next  succeeding  their  election,  and  continue 
for  two  years,  and  the  terms  of  all  the  other  town  officers  of 
Hartford,  elected  for  one  year,  shall  commence  on  the  first 
Monday  of  January  next  succeeding  their  election;  and  all 
town  officers,  and  the  collector  of  said  city,  shall  hold  their 
offices  until  their  successors  shall  be  chosen  and  qualified. 

Sec.  2.  The  selectmen  of  the  town  of  Hartford  shall,  from 
time  to  time,  appoint  one  or  more  persons  to  act  as  rate- 
makers  for  said  town ;  and  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  , 
of  Hartford  shall  annually  appoint  a  rate-maker  for  said  city  Jl 
who  shall  respectively  discharge  the  duties  appertaining  to 
their  appointment,  and  shall  be  the  proper  authority  to  sign 
the  ratfe-bills  by  them  made  until  others  shall  be  appointed  in 
their  stead. 

Approved,  March  28,  1878.^ 


TAXATION.  171 

y. 


of 

collectors. 
P.  A.,  1879,  p.  396. 

5 


Section  1.     All  town  and  city  collectors  whose  compensa-  f^^^^^^^^l 
tion  is  lixed  by  a  salary  and  not  by  a  rate  of  commission 
shall  during  their  term  of  office  have  authority  to  collect  all 
taxes  due  the  towns  and  cities  of  which  they  are  collectors,  ~ 

they  having  proper  warrants  therefor ;  and  upon  the  expira- 
tion of  their  terms  of  office,  the  rate-bills  not  fully  collected  uuoouected  rate. 
shall  be  delivered  to  their  immediate  successors  in  said  offices 
respectively,  who,  with  warrants  to  them  directed,  shall  have 
authority  to  collect  the  taxes  remaining  due  thereon. 

Sec.  2.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved,  March  27,  1879. 

VI. 

Section  1.     The  first  selectman  of  any  town,  the  mayor  of  coutinuanceof  tax 
any  city,  the  warden  of  any  borough,  and  the  chairman  of  ^- ■*^' ^®^*' P' '*'^^* 
the  committee  of  other  communities  may  continue  any  tax 
lien  upon  any  real  estate  by  causing  to  be  recorded  in  the 
land  records  of  the  town  in  which  the  real  estate  is  situated, 
within  the  first  year  after  the  tax  becomes  due,  his  certificate 
describing  the  real  estate,  the  amount  of  the  tax  and  the 
time  when  it  became  due,  and  thereupon  such  tax,  with  the 
interest  thereon  at  seven  per  cent,  per  annum,  shall  remain  a 
lien  upon  such  real  estate  for  five  years  thereafter  unless  the 
tax  and  interest  shall  be  sooner  paid;   and  any  tax  lien  so 
continued,  when  the  tax  has  been  paid,  may  be  discharged  Discharge. 
by  a  certificate  of  the  collector  of  the  tax  recorded  in  such 
land  records. 

Sec.  2.     All  acts  inconsistent  herewith  are  hereby  repealed ;  Eepeai. 
but  any  tax  lien  continued  by  a  certificate  heretofore  recorded 
as  required  by  section  sixteen,  chapter  two,  title  twelve  of 
the  general  statutes,  and  the  amendment  thereto  approved 
July  2,  1875,  shall  continue  in  force  as  therein  provided. 

Approved,  March  28,  1879. 


172 


TAXATION. 


Foreclosure  of  tax 

liens. 

P.  A.,  1879,  p.  421. 


YII. 

Tax  liens  may  be  foreclosed  in  the  manner  provided  by 
law  for  the  foreclosure  of  mortgages  of  real  estate ;  and  the 
court  having  jurisdiction  may  limit  a  time  for  redemption, 
or  order  the  sale  of  the  property,  or  pass  such  other  decree 
as  it  shall  judge  proper. 

Approved,  March  27,  1879. 


Foreclosure  of  tax 

liens. 

P.  A.,  1881,  p.  II. 


YIII. 

Section  1.  In  all  actions  hereafter  brought  for  the  fore- 
closure of  tax  liens,  all  the  municipal  corporations  which 
have  such  liens  upon  the  property  in  question  may  join  in 
one  complaint  to  foreclose  the  same. 

Sec.  2.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved,  March  9,  1881. 


Correctiou  of  tax 

assessments. 

P.  A.,  1881,  p.  54. 


Collection  by  suit. 


IX. 

Section  1.  Any  clerical  omission  or  mistake  in  the  assess- 
ment of  taxes  may  be,  at  any  time,  corrected  according  to 
the  fact,  by  the  assessors  or  board  of  relief,  and  the  tax  shall 
be  levied  and  collected  according  to  such  corrected  assess- 
ment. 

Sec.  2.  All  taxes,  properly  assessed,  shall  become  a  debt 
due  from  the  person,  persons,  or  corporation  against  whom 
they  are  respectively  assessed  to  the  city,  town,  district,  or 
community  in  whose  favor  they  are  assessed,  and  may  be,  ini 
addition  to  the  remedies  now  provided  by  law,  recovered  by 
any  proper  complaint  or  j)roceeding  at  law,  in  the  name  of] 
the  community  in  whose  favor  they  are  assessed,  for  the 
recovery  of  money  due,  as  in  other  cases. 

Approved,  April  12,  1881. 


Form  of  tax 
warrant. 
R.  S.,  p.  164. 


X. 

Sec  21.     Warrants  for  the  collection  of  taxes  may  be  in 
the  following  form : 

To  A.  B,,  collector  of  taxes  of  the  [here  insert  the  name  of 


TELEGRAPH  AND  TELEPHONE.  173 

the  community  laying  the  tax\^  in  the  county  of ,  greet- 
ing: 

By  authority  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  you  are  hereby 
commanded  forthwith  to  collect  of  each  person  named  in  the 
annexed  list,  his  proportion  of  the  same,  as  therein  stated, 

being  a  tax  laid  by  \name  of  community'],  on  the  — day 

of ,  A.  D.  18 — ,  for  the  purpose  of  [here  state  the  pur- 
pose for  which  the  tax  was  laid].  And  you  are  to  pay  the 
sums  collected  to  the  treasurer  of  said  [name  of  community], 

on  or  before  the day  of ,  A.  D.  18 — .     And  if 

any  person  fails  to  pay  his  proportion  of  said  tax,  you  are  to 
levy  upon  his  goods  and  chattels,  and  dispose  of  the  same  as 
the  law  directs ;  and  after  satisfying  said  tax  and  the  lawful 
charges,  return  the  overplus,  if  any,  to  him;  and  for  want  of 
such  goods  and  chattels  you  are  to  levy  upon  his  real  estate, 
and  sell  enough  thereof  to  pay  his  tax  and  the  costs  of  levy, 
and  give  to  the  purchaser  a  deed  thereof,  or  take  the  body  of 
said  person  and  him  commit  unto  the  keeper  of  the  jail  of 
said  county  within  the  prison,  who  is  hereby  commanded  to 
receive  and  safely  keep  him  until  he  shall  pay  said  sum, 
together  with  your  fees. 

Dated  at ,  this day  of ,  A.  D.  18 — . 

A.  B.,  Justice  of  the  Peace. ,  " 


TELEGEAPH  AND  TELEPHONE. 

I.    style  of  telegraph  poles  regulated.      [  III.    Injury  to  fire  alarm  telegraph. 
II.    style  of  telephone  poles  regulated.     | 


I. 

The  warden  and  burgesses  of  any  borough,  and  the  com-  ^•^^I^'^^p^^p^'^P^ 
mon  council  of  any  city,  may,  upon  giving  reasonable  notice 
to  any  telegraph  company,  compel  it  to  furnish  poles  of  such 
style  and  finish  as  they  may  determine,  within  their  limits. 


174 


TELEGRAPH  AND  TELEPHONE. 


Telephone 
companies. 
P.  A.,  1879,  p.  381, 


II. 

Section  1.  That  the  statutes  concerning  telegraph  com- 
panies, to  wit,  sections  one,  two,  three,  four,  six,  seven  and 
eight  of  part  ten,  chapter  II,  title  seventeen,  and  section 
thirty -four,  chapter  IV,  title  twenty,  of  the  revised  statutes 
of  1875,  be  amended  by  adding  after  the  word  "telegraph," 
wherever  the  same  may  occur  in  either  of  said  sections,  the 
words  "or  telephone." 

Sec.  2.     This  act  shall  take  eifect  from  its  passage. 

Approved,  March  26,  1879. 


III. 

puuishment  of  Section  1.     Thc  courts  of  common  council  of  the  cities  of 

injuries  to  Are 

s X  ^oi?6?p^557.  Hartford  and  New  Haven,  respectively,  shall  have  power  to 
pass  ordinances  providing  for  the  punishment  of  all  wilful 
or  malicious  injuries  to  the  fire  alarm  telegraph,  and  fire 
apparatus,  and  property  of  said  cities,  and  for  the  unlawful 
making,  use,  or  possession  of  keys  to  the  alarm-boxes  con- 

peuaity.  ucctcd  wlth  Said  telegraph ;  and  the  penalty  for  violating  the 

provisions  of  any  ordinance  passed  in  pursuance  of  this  act 
may  be  a  fine  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars,  or  impris- 
onment in  the  county  jail  not  exceeding  three  months,  or 
such  fine  and  imprisonment  both. 

Jurisdiction.  Sec.  2.     Thc  City  Police  Court  shall  have  jurisdiction  of 

all  cases  arising  under  this  act,  provided,  an  appeal  shall  be 

allowed  to  the  Superior  Court,  as  in  other  cases. 

Approved,  July  30,  1868. 


WATER   WORKS.  175 


WATEE  WOEKS. 

I,    General  powers  of  water  commis-  I     VI.  Powers  over  unexpended  balance 

sioners.  of  the  water  fund. 

II.    Water  main  extended  to  Wethers-  VII.  Control  of  public  hydrants. 

field.  VIII.  Taxation  of  lands  held  for  water 

III.    City  meetings    relative    to   water  supply  purposes. 

from  Trout  brook.  IX.  Purity    of    water    supply,    how 


secured. 


IV.    Power  to  take  water  from  streams 

in  West  Hartford. 
V.    Water  supply  from  Avon,  Farming- 
ton  and  Bloomfield. 

I. 

That  the  board  of  water  commissioners  of  the  City  of  p^^er^  o;  water 

•^  commissioners. 

Hartford  are  hereby  empowered  to  make  such  by-laws  or  ^"  ^"  '°^"  ^'  ^*  *^' 

regulations  for  the  preservation,  protection,  and  management 

of  the  water  works  of  said  city  as  may  be  deemed  advisable 

and  enforce  the  same  by  suitable  penalties,  and  when  said 

by-laws  or  regulations  have  been  approved  by  the  Court  of  By-iaws. 

Common  Council  and  shall  have  been  published  ten  days,  at  Publication. 

least,  in  two  or  more  daily  papers  issued  within  said  city, 

they  be  of  binding  validity;   and  said  commissioners  may  suits. 

bring  in  their  own  name,  actions  of  debt  on  such  by-laws, 

before  the  City  Court  for  said  city  to  recover  any  penalty  for 

the  breach  of  the  same. 

The  City  Police  Court  of  said  city  shall  also  have  iurisdic-  Jurisdiction  or 

I   ,  offences, 

rtion  over  any  breach  of  said  by-laws  or  regulations,  and  may 
punish  the  offender  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  thirty  dollars,  or 
by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  thirty  days,  or  by  a  fine  and 
imprisonment  both. 

The  board  of  water  commissioners  shall  have  power  to  water  rates, 
establish  rates  for  the  use  of  water,  subject  to  the  approval 
of  the  Court  of  Common  Council;  and  whenever  any  water 
rent  shall  remain  unpaid  after  the  time  prescribed  and  limited 
for  payment,  by  the  rules  of  said  board,  it  shall  be  lawful  for 
said  board  to  charge  and  receive  additional  percentage  for  Additional 

*-"  X  o  percentage. 

collecting  the  same ;  provided,  the  conditions  of  said  percent- 
age be  published  as  aforesaid  in  the  rules  of  said  board. 
Approved,  July  3,  1861. 


176 


WATER    WORKS. 


Water  mains 
extended  to  state 
prison,  etc. 
P.  A.,  vol.  6,  p.  7 


Wethersfielrt. 


II. 

That  the  I)oard  of  water  commissioners  of  the  City  of 
13.  Hartford,  with  the  consent  of  the  mayor  and  Common  Coun- 
cil, be  and  they  are  hereby  authorized  to  extend  their  water 
main  from  the  Hartford  and  Wethersfield  town  line  north  of 
the  bridge  known  as  Folly  bridge,  over  and  across  said  bridge 
through  the  highway  in  the  town  of  Wethersfield  to  the 
Connecticut  State  Prison,  and  from  thence  to  such  points  as 
may  be  agreed  upon  by  said  commissioners  and  the  selectmen 
of  said  town  of  Wethersfield.  The  said  water  commissioners 
to  have  control  of  said  main  and  its  connections  the  same  as 
if  laid  in  the  town  of  Hartford. 

Approved,  July  8,  1869. 


Trout  brook  water. 
S.  A.,  vol.  5,  p.  539. 


City  meetings. 


Voting  list. 


III. 

Whereas,  Doubts  have  arisen  in  regard  to  the  manner  of 
calling  and  holding  city  meetings  in  said  city,  for  purposes 
other  than  for  the  election  of  officers;  and  whereas,  doubts 
have  also  arisen  whether,  under  and  by  virtue  of  said  act,  the 
board  of  water  commissioners  thereby  constituted  have  the 
power  to  take  and  convey  for  and  in  behalf  of  said  city,  a 
supply  of  water  from  Trout  Brook  (so  called),  in  the  town  of 
West  Hartford,  or  from  any  other  source  than  the  Connecti- 
cut river;  therefore, 

Resolved  by  this  Assembly  : 

Section  1.     All   meetings  of  said  city,  whether  for  tne 
choice  of  officers,  or  for  any  other  purpose  whatever,  shall  be    ^ 
warned  and  held  in  the  respective  wards  of  said  city,  and  them 
votes  shall  be  taken  by  ballot ;  and  said  meetings,  and  all  the 
incidents  of  voting  therein,  and  of  the  proceedings  in  relation -J 
to  said  votes,  shall  be  subject  to  the  same  regulations  as  are^| 
provided  in  case  of  meetings  for  the  electign  of  city  officers ; 
except,  that  the  official  list  of  the  names  of  persons  entitled 
to  vote  in  either  of  said  wards  last  prepared  for  any  annual 
meeting  for  the  choice  of  officers,  shall  be  and  remain  the 
official  list  for  all  subsequent  meetings,  until  the  next  annual 
meeting  for  the  choice  of  officers. 


WATER  WORKS.  177 

Sec.  2.  The  said  act,  which  this  is  an  addition  to  and  in  construction. 
explanatioiji  of,  shall  be  construed  in  the  same  manner  as  if 
the  said  Trout  Brook,  or  any  other  source  of  water  supply 
within  the  towns  of  West  Hartford  or  Hartford  had  been 
expressly  named  therein,  but  the  said  board  of  water  com- 
missioners shall  not  be  authorized  under  this  section  to  take 
and  convey  water  from  said  Trout  Brook,  until  further 
authorized  thereto  by  a  major  vote  of  a  city  meeting  espe- 
cially warned  b}^  the  mayor,  and  held  for  such  purpose  in  the  i^imitation, 
several  wards  of  said  city,  on  the  seventh  day  of  July,  A.  D., 
1863,  at  which  meeting  all  ballots  cast,  inscribed  with  the 
words  "For  Trout  Brook,''  shall  be  counted  as  authorizing 
and  approving  a  supply  of  water  from  said  Trout  Brook; 
and  all  ballots  cast,  inscribed  with  the  words  "  For  Connecticut  saiiota. 
River,''  shall  be  counted  as  approving  a  supply  of  water  from 
Connecticut  Eiver. 

Approved,  July  1,  1863. 


lY. 

>  ■TO-TiP.tTifir  ihft  f>hnT»tAv  of  «ni<1 

S.  A.,  vol.  5,  p.  769. 


Whereas,  Doubts  have  arisen  whether  the  charter  of  said  J'""*  ^''^'^  ^»^''- 


city  confers  upon  the  board  of  water  commissioners  therein 
constituted,  the  power  to  take  and  convey  for  and  in  behalf 
of  said  city  a  supply  of  water  from  any  other  source  than  the 
Connecticut  river ;  therefore. 

Resolved  by  this  Assembly : 

Section  1.  That  said  charter  shall  be  construed  in  the  Trout  Brook, 
same  manner,  and  said  board  of  water  commissioners  shall 
have  the  same  powers  as  if  the  stream  in  West  Hartford, 
called  "Trout  Brook,"  or  any  other  stream,  or  water  source 
within  the  towns  of  West  Hartford  or  Hartford  had  been 
expressly  named  therein,  and  any  land  or  water  right,  title, 
privilege,  or  franchise  which  may  be  required,  taken  or  im- 
paired for  the  purpose  of  supplying  said  city  or  said  towns 
with  water  under  said  charter,  shall  be  compensated  for,  and 
the  damages  ascertained,  liquidated  and  paid  in  the  same  Damagea. 
manner  as  is  provided  in  the  twenty-fourth  section  of  said 
charter. 


178 


WATER   WORKS. 


Approval.  Sec.  2.     If  said  city  shall  approve  this  resolution  in 

manner  hereinafter  provided,  and  said  board  of  water  com- 
missioners shall  introduce  water  into  said  city  from  said 
Trout  Brook,  or  other  water  source  as  aforesaid,  it  shall  be 
lawful,  and  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  board  of  water  commis- 
sioners to  supply  said  water  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  afore- 
said towns  living  within  a  reasonable  distance  from  the  line 

Water  supplies,  of  malu  plpcs  at  the  same  rate  of  water  rents  and  upon  the 
same  terms  and  conditions,  that  the  inhabitants  of  said  city 
are  or  may  be  from  time  to  time  supplied,  and  the  said  water 

^'iens-  rents  shall  constitute  a  lien  on  lots,  houses,  and  tenements 

within  said  towns,  and  be  collected  and  enforced  in  the  same 
manner  that  water  rents  are,  or  may  be  collected  and  enforced 
in  said  City  of  Hartford. 

Sec*  3.  Said  board  of  water  commissioners  shall  not  be 
authorized  under  this  resolution  to  take  and  convey  water 
from  said  Trout  Brook  or  other  water  source  as  aforesaid, 

Approval.  withiu  thc  towus  of  West  Hartford  or  Hartford,  until  this 

resolution  shall  be  approved  in  the  manner  herein  prescribed. 

Manner.  A  sp6cial  mcctiug  of  Said  city  shall  be  called  by  the  mayor  of 

said  city,  in  the  manner  provided  by  the  ordinances  of  said 
city  for  calling  special  meetings  thereof,  for  the  purpose  of 
approving  or  disapproving  this  resolution.  The  vote  at  said 
meeting  shall  be  by  ballot,  and  shall  be  cast  by  the  freemen 
of  said  city,  in  their  respective  wards.  The  ballot  boxes 
shall  be  opened  at  seven  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  and  close  at 
five  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of  the  day  of  said  meeting. 
Upon  each  ballot  shall  be  written  or  j)rinted  the  words 
"  Trout  Brook,"  or  the  words  "  Connecticut  River."     If  three- 

Baiiots.         .     fifths  of  the  ballots  cast  at  said  meeting  shall  have  u^^on 
them  the  words  "  Trout  Brook,"  then  this  resolution  shall  be 
deemed  approved. 
Approved,  July  21,  1865. 


4 


I 


Water  supplies 
B.  A.,  1875,  p 


10. 


y. 

The  board  of  water  commissioners  of  the  City  of  Hartford, 
for  the  purpose  of  improving  and  increasing  the  water  supply 
of  said  city,  are  hereby  authorized  and  empowered,  in  behalf 


I 


WATER   WORKS.  179 

of  said  city,  to  take  and  hold  any  stream  or  water  source, 
and  any  land  necessary  or  convenient  for  constructing  aque- 
ducts and  reservoirs  within  the  limits  of  the  towns  of  Avon,  andBioomaew.*"" 
Farmington  and  Bloomfield,  and  any  land  or  water  right, 
title,  privilege,  or  franchise  which  may  be  required,  taken  or  _ 

impaired  for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  shall  be  compensated  for, 
and  the  damages  therefor  ascertained,  liquidated  and  paid  in 
the  same  manner  provided  in  the  twenty-fourth  section  of 
the  charter  of  said  city. 
Approved,  June  2,  1875. 

VI. 

That  the  act  passed  by  the  General  Assembly  at  the  present  Powers  of  water 

i-  *J  ii  X  commissioners. 

May  Session,  A.  D.  1875,  entitled  an  act  to  extend  the  powers  «•  ^- i^^s,  p.  55. 
of  the  board  of  water  commissioners  of  the  City  of  Hartford, 
shall  be  so  construed  as  to  allow  said  board  to  use  (subject  to 
the  order  and  direction  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of 
said  city)  for  the  purpose  of  acquiring  and  utilizing  the  lands, 
water  rights,  privileges  and  franchises  mentioned  in  said  act, 
any  unexpended  balance  of  the  "  water  works  improvement 
fund  of  the  City  of  Hartford;"  but  shall  not  be  so  construed  Limitation, 
as  to  authorize  the  expenditure  of  any  further  sum,  or  the 
incurring  of  any  other  liabilities  for  such  purposes. 
Lipproved,  June  24,  1875. 


YII. 


The  care  and  control  of  the  public  hydrants  in  the  City  of  go^foj^^f^hjdrants. 
Hartford  shall  hereafter  be  vested  in  the  board  of  fire  com- 
missioners of  said  city,  reserving  to  the  board  of  water  com- 
missioners of  said  city  the  right  to  use  and  grant  to  others 
the  use  of  the  same  for  purposes  not  inconsistent  with  the 
use  thereof  by  the  fire  dejDartment  of  said  city. 

Approved,  June  24,  1874. 

YIII. 


Land  owned  or  taken  by  any  municipal  corporation,  for  Taxa«(m  of  water 
the  purpose  of  creating  or  furnishing  a  supply  of  water  for 
its  use  or  benefit,  shall  be  liable  to  taxation,  and  shall  be  set 


board  lands. 

P.  A.,  1879,  p.  429. 


180 


WATER  WORKS. 


I 


in  the  list  in  the  town  where  such  land  is  situated,  to  the 
corporation  owning  or  controlling  such  water  supply,  at  a 
valuation  which  would  be  fair  for  said  land  if  used  for  agri- 
cultural purposes;  provided,  however,  that  no  such  land  shall 
be  liable  to  taxation,  or  set  in  any  list  as  aforesaid,  wherever 
the  inhabitants  of  the  town  in  which  the  said  land  is  situated 
have  the  right  to  the  use  of  such  water  supply  upon  the  same 
terms  and  conditions  as  the  inhabitants  of  such  municipal 
corporation,  and  when  such  town  actually  uses  the  same/ 
Approved,  March  28,  1879. 


Petition  to  court  to 
prevent  defilement 
of  water. 
P.  A.,  1883,  p.  243. 


Power  of  court. 


Compensation  to 
party  injured. 


Decree  of  court, 
how  enforced. 


IX. 

Section  1.  Whenever  any  land  or  building  is  so  used, 
occupied,  or  suffered  to  remain,  that  it  is  a  source  of  injury 
to  the  water  stored  in  any  reservoir  used  for  supplying  any 
town,  city,  or  borough  with  water,  or  to  any  source  of  supply 
to  any  such  resei*voir,  the  authorities  of  such  town,  city,  or 
borough  having  charge  of  said  water,  may  bring  their  peti- 
tion to  the  Superior  Court  in  and  for  the  county  in  which 
said  town,  city,  or  borough  is  located,  for  relief 

Sec.  2.  Said  court  upon  said  petition  shall  have  full  power 
to  order  the  removal  of  any  building,  to  enjoin  any  use  or 
occupation  of  any  land  or  building,  which  is  detrimental  to 
said  water,  or  make  any  other  order,  temporary  or  perma- 
nent, which  in  its  judgment  may  be  necessary  to  preserve 
the  purity  of  said  water.  ■ 

Sec.  3.  In  cases  where  the  law  requires  compensation  t6« 
be  made  to  any  person  whose  rights,  interests  or  property 
are  injuriously  affected  by  said  orders,  such  court  shall  appoint 
a  committee  of  three  disinterested  freeholders  of  the  county 
who  shall  determine  and  award  the  amount  to  be  paid  by 
such  authorities  before  such  order  is  carried  into  effect. 

Sec.  4.  For  the  purposes  of  this  act  said  court  is  vested 
with  all  the  powers  of  a  court  of  equity,  and  may  enforce  its 
decrees  in  any  lawful  manner. 

Approved,  March  21,  1883. 


I 


»See  West  Hartford  v.  Board  of  Watey  Commissioners,  44  Conn.,  360. 


CORPORATIONS. 


181 


COKPOEATIONS. 


I.    Hartford  City  Gas  Light  Company. 
II.    Hartford  Hospital. 

III.  Hartford   and  Wethersfield   Horse 

Railroad  Company. 

IV.  Same  subject. 


V.  Same  subject. 

VI.  Hartford  Home. 

VII.  Hartford  Steam  Company. 

VIII.  Hartford  Electric  Light  Company. 


I. 
HARTFORD  CITY  GAS  LIGHT  COMPANY. 
That  Solomon  Porter,  Harvey  Seymour,  Ezra  Clark,  Jr.,  g""/°'.J'„\"'"^-    ^^ 
Thomas  Belknap,  William  B.  Ely,  and  Eichard  D.  Hubbard, 
with  such  other  persons  as  shall  associate  with  them  for  that 
purpose,  are  constituted  a  body  politic  and  corporate,  by  the 
name  of  "  The  Hartford  City  Gas  Light  Company,"  and  by 
that  name  are  empowered  to  sue  and  be  sued,  plead  and  be  f„"p°^*'^*''*  ^° 
impleaded  in  any  coui't  in  this  state;  to  make  and  have  a 
common  seal,  and  the  same  to  break,  alter,  or  renew  at  pleas- 
ure;  and   the   said  company  is  hereby  vested  with  all  the 
powers,  privileges,  and   immunities  which  *  are  or   may  be  Powers,  privileges. 
necessary  to  carry  into  effect  the  purposes  and  objects  of  this 
act,  as  hereinafter  set  forth;   and  said  company  is  hereby 
authorized  and  empowered  to  manufacture,  make,  and  sell 
gas,  to  be  made  from  rosin,  coal,  oil,  and  any  other  material 
or  materials,  and  to  furnish  such  quantities  of  gas  as  may  be 
required  in  the  City  of  Hartford,  for  lighting  streets,  stores, 
and  buildings,  or  other  purposes;  and  to  enter  into  and  exe- 
cute contracts,  agreements  or  covenants  in   relation  to  the 
objects  of  said  company,  and  to  enforce  the  same.     And  said 
company  shall  be  capable  of  purchasing,  taking  and  holding, 
and  of  ffrantinii^,  sellino;,  and  convevins;  any  estate,  real  or  May  purchase  and 

'^  '^  ®'  J        fD  J  ■>  hold  estate,  real  and 

personal,  necessary  to  give  effect  to  the  specified  purposes  of  p^''°"*'- 
this  company,  and  for  the  accommodation  of  their  business 
and  concerns. 

Sec.  2.     That  said  company  shall  be  empowered  to   lay  Gas  pipes  and 
down  their  gas  pipes,  and  to  erect  gas  posts,  burners  and 
reflectors   in   the   streets,   alleys,  lanes,   avenues,   or  public 
grounds  of  the  said  City  of  Hartford,  and  to  do  all  things 


182 


CORPORATIONS. 


streets  to  be  left 
uniiijured. 


necessary  to  light  the  said  city,  and  the  dwellings,  stores,  and 
other  places  situated  therein ;  provided,  that  the  streets,  side 
and  crosswalks,  public  grounds,  lanes  and  avenues  shall  not 
be  injured,  but  all  be  left  in  as  good  and  perfect  condition  as 
before  the  laying  of  said  pipes  or  the  erection  of  said  posts. 


Injury  to  property 
of  company 
prohibited. 


Penalty. 


Sec.  8.  If  any  person  shall  wilfully  and  maliciously  do  or 
cause  to  be  done  any  act  or  acts  whatever,  whereby  any 
building,  construction,  or  works  of  said  company,  or  any  gas 
pipe,  gas  post,  burner  or  reflector,  or  any  matter  or  thing 
appertaining  to  the  same,  shall  be  stopped,  obstructed,  in- 
jured, or  destroyed,  the  person  or  persons  so  offending  shall 
be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  being  thereof  con- 
victed, shall  be  punished  by  a  fine,  not  exceeding  one  hun- 
dred dollars,  or  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail,  not  exceed- 
ing six  months,  or  by  such  fine  and  imprisonment  both,  at 
the  discretion  of  the  court  having  cognizance  of  such  offence : 
Prosecution  uo  bar   vrovided,  however,  that  such  criminal  prosecutions  shall  not  in 

to  civil  suit.  r  7  '  r 

any  way  impair  the  right  of  action  for  damages  by  a  civil 
suit,  hereby  authorized  to  be  brought  for  any  such  injury  as 
aforesaid,  by  and  in  the  name  of  the  said  corporation,  in  any 
court  in  this  state  having  cognizance  of  the  same. 


Corporators. 

S.  A.,  vol.  3,  p.  309. 


Corporate  i 


m 


II. 

THE  HARTFORD  HOSPITAL. 

Section  1.     That  David  Watkinson,  Ebenezcr  Flower," 
S.  Beckwith,  S.  S.  Ward,  A.  W.  Butler,  A.  M.  Collins,  Wm.     ■ 
T.  Lee,  Job  Allyn,  Samuel   Colt,  James  B.  Crosby,  Albertm 
Day,  Chester  Adams,  James  G.  BoUes,  George  Beach,  Thos. 
Smith,  Jonathan  Goodwin,  A.  W.  Birge,  Lucius  Barber,  and 
Charles  T.  Hillyer,  and  all  such  persons  as  are,  from  time  to 
time,  associated  with  them,  for  the  purpose  of  establishingm 
and  maintaining  a  hospital  in  the  City  of  Hartford,  and  their 
successors  be,  and  they  hereby  are,  incorporated  for  said  pur- 
pose, and  made  a  body  corporate  and  politic,  by  the  name  of  ■ 
the  Hartford  Hospital,  and  by  that  name  shall  be  capable  of 
sueing  and  being  sued,  pleading  and  being  impleaded,  and 


CORPORATIONS.  183 

may  purchase,  take,  receive,  hold,  sell,  and  convey  estate,  real  propen"!""* ^**''^ 
and  personal,  to  such  an  amount  as  may  be  necessary  for  the 
purposes  of  said  corporation;  may  have  a  common  seal,  and  s^^^- 
the  same  may  alter  and  change  at  pleasure,  and  may  make 
and  execute  such  by-laws  and  regulations,  not  contrary  to  ^^y '"''»'« hv-iajts.  _ 
the  laws  of  this  state,  or  of  the  United  States,  as  shall  be 
deemed  necessary  for  the  well  ordering  and  conducting  the 
concerns  of  said  corporation. 

Sec.  2.     That  said  corporation  shall  be  governed  by  the  H"^  governed. 
following  articles: 

Article  1.  This  corporation  shall  be  called  the  Hartford  Members,  etc. 
Hospital.  Persons  contributing  for  the  use  of  the  corporation, 
at  any  one  time,  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars,  shall  be  members 
for  life.  Persons  contributing  the  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars 
shall  be  vice-presidents  for  life,  and  also  directors  for  life; 
those  contributing  two  hundred  dollars  shall  be  directors  for 
life;  those  twenty-five  dollars  shall  be  members  for  five  years; 
and  those  ten  dollars  shall  be  members  for  one  year. 

Art.  2.     In  order  the  better  to  carry  into  eifect  the  objects 
of  said  corporation,  the  members  thereof  shall,  at  an  annual 
meeting,  to  be  held  at  such  time  and  place  as  the  by-laws  of 
the  said  corporation  shall  direct  and  appoint,  elect  from  their 
own  members  by  ballot,  and  by  a  majority  of  the  votes  given 
at  such  election,  twelve  persons  as  directors  of  the  said  cor-  ^^^^^a  wTob" 
poration ;  and  the  persons  so  elected,  together  with  the  mayor  ^''■^*''""- 
of  the  City  of  Hartford  for  the  time  being,  shall  constitute 
a  board  of  directors.     The  directors  so  elected  shall  hold 
their  offices  for  one  year  and  until  others  are  elected  in  their  Term  of  office. 
places.     In  case  of  any  vacancy  in  the  board,  the  remainder  vacancy. 
of  the  directors  shall  have  power  to  fill  such  vacancy  until 
the  next  election. 

Art.  3.  The  board  of  directors  shall  annually,  as  soon  as  JE°."  **' ^'^*'* 
may  be  convenient  after  the  said  annual  election,  elect  by 
ballot,  from  among  their  own  numbers,  a  president,  a  vice- 
president,  and  shall  also  elect  a  secretary  and  a  treasurer, 
who  shall  hold  their  offices  for  one  year,  and  until  others  are 
elected  in  their  stead.  But  as  many  directors  may  be  chosen 
as  there  may  be  directors  by  subscription. 


184 


CORPORATIONS. 


Directors ; 
powers  of. 


Medical  officers. 


First  meeting;  liow 
called. 


Annual  meeting. 


Art,  4.  The  said  board  of  directors  shall  have  power  to 
manage  and  conduct  all  the  business  and  concerns  of  the 
corporation,  and  to  make  such  laws  as  may  be  necessary  for 
the  management  and  disposition  of  the  estate  and  concerns 
of  the  corporation,  and  to  appoint  such  officers  and  servants 
as  they  may  deem  necessary.  The  medical  officers,  including 
all  attending  and  consulting  physicians  and  surgeons,  shall 
be  appointed  annually.  Vacancies  occurring  before  the  expi- 
ration of  a  year  from  the  time  of  any  appointment,  shall  be 
filled  by  the  directors  as  soon  as  the  same  can  conveniently 
be  done. 

Art.  5.  A  majority  of  the  corporators  shall  call  the  first 
meeting  for  the  election  of  officers,  at  such  time  and  place  in 
the  City  of  Hartford  as  they  shall  appoint,  giving  three  days' 
notice  thereof,  by  publishing  the  same  in  the  daily  papers  of 
the  city,  and  the  annual  meeting  of  said  corporation  shall  be 
held  at  such  time  and  place,  and  on  such  notice,  as  shall  be 
fixed  by  the  by-laws  of  said  corporation. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  may  be  altered,  amended,  or  repealed,  by 
the  General  Assembly. 

Passed,  1854. 


Corporators. 
S.  A.,  vol.  5, 


III. 


HARTFORD  AND  WETHERSFIELD  HORSE  RAILWAY 
COMPANY. 


« 


Section  1.     That  S.  W.  Eobbins,  Henry  C.  Dwight,  IS'athan 
M.  Waterman,  Edward  Wadsworth,  George  W.  Moore  and 
James  Bolter,  with  such  other  persons  as  shall  associate  with     . 
them  for  the  purposes  hereof,  be  and  they  hereby  are  const!- ■I 
tuted  a  body  politic  and  corporate,  by  the  name  of  the  Hart- 
ford and  Wethersfield  Horse  Eailway  Company,  and  by  that     - 
name  they   shall   have   and   enjoy   all  the  powers   usuallyl|l 
granted  to  railroad  corporations  in  this  state.    And  said  com- 
pany is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  locate,  construct, 
and  finally  complete  a  single  or  double  railway,  from  a  point 
in  the  highwa}^,  at  or  near  the  brick  Congregational  church, 
in  the  town  of  Wethersfield,  over  and  along  said  highway,  to 
the  City  of  Hartford;  and  thence  to   such   point  on  Main 


CORPORATIONS.  185 

street,  in  said  city,  as  the  directors  of  said  company  shall 
designate. 

Provided,   however,   that   such  railway   shall   not  be   con-  forcons^mcuor" 
structed  over  said  highways,  or  any  part  thereof,  without  the  necessary. 
consent  of  the  towns  or  Common  Council  of  the  city  having  _  , 

charge  of  such  highways.  And  said  corporation  is  hereby 
authorized  and  empowered  to  transport,  take  and  carry  per- 
sons and  property  upon  and  over  said  road ;  provided,  however,  Sed  ^"a  m*Suve 
that  steam  shall  not  be  used  as  a  motive  power  in  operating 
said  road.  And  the  said  company  is  hereby  vested  with  all 
the  powers  and  privileges,  and  is  made  subject  to  all  the  du- 
ties, conditions  and  requirements  of  the  Act  relating  to  Eail- 
road  Companies,  passed  May  session,  1849,  and  all  other  acts 
in  addition  or  in  alteration  thereof. 

ly. 

Section  1.     That  section  sixth  of  the  resolve  incorporatinp;  h.&w.h.r.e.co. 

■■-  '-'   Certain  sections 

the  Hartford  and  Wethersfield  Horse  Eailway  Company,  and  siTjvd.s,  p.  492. 

§  1,  2,  7,  9  and  10. 

so  much  of  the  first  section  of  said  resolve  as  provides  that 
said  company  shall  be  subject  to  the  duties,  conditions  and 
requirements  of  the  act  of  1849,  relating  to  railroad  compd,- 
nies,  and  the  other  acts  in  addition  to  and  in  alteration 
thereof,  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed. 


Sec  2.     Upon  the  completion  of  the  railway  specified  in  its  ^hWhwaT'' 
original  charter,  said  corporation  is  hereby  authorized  and  SnTcharten 
empowered  to  build,  construct,  and  operate  over  any  of  the 
other  highways  in  the  City  of  Hartford,  such  other  railways, 
branches,  or  extensions,  as  public  convenience  may  require ; 
provided,  however,  that  no  such  railways,  branches,  or  exten-  consent  of  councn 

-I-  I  1  J     T  1  necessary. 

sions  shall  in  any  case  be  constructed,  built,  or  operated  with- 
out the  consent  of  the  Common  Council  of  said  city  first  had 
and  obtained;  and  provided,  also,  that  the  grades  and  location 
of  such  railways,  branches  and  extensions  shall  in  all  cases 
be  subject  to  the  direction  and  approval  of  said  Common 
Council. 


Sec  7.     Said  corporation  may  establish  and  collect  a  toll  tous 
upon  all  passengers  and  property  transported  by  them  over 


186  CORPORATIONS. 

by  c'oramon^^"*'''''^  ®^^^  Tallway,  at  such  reasonable  rates  as  may  be  determined 
from  time  to  time  by  the  directors,  and  approved  by  said 
Common  Council;    and  said  directors  shall  have  power  to 

By-laws.  make  and  prescribe  such  by-laws,  rules,  and  regulations  in 

relation  to  the  stock,  property  and  business  of  said  corpora- 
tion, as  may  from  time  to  time  be  found  necessary. 


Sec.  9.  Said  corporation  shall,  in  all  cases  in  which  their 
railway  is  located  in  the  traveled  part  of  the  highway,  keep 
and  maintain  all  that  part  of  the  highway,  over  which  their 
railway  is  laid,  together  with  a  space  two  feet  on  each  side  of 
their  track,  in  good  and  sufficient  repair,  without  expense  to 

Repair  of  track,  ^hc  city  or  towu  havlug  charge  of  such  highways.  Said 
company  shall  also  make  good  all  damage  to  any  highways 
in  said  town  of  Wethersfield,  over  which  their  road  or  way 
shall  pass,  caused  by  the  construction  of  such  road  or  way ; 

fffSondition!"  ^^^  ^11  such  highways  shall  be  restored  to,  and  left,  on  com- 
pletion of  said  railway,  in  as  good  condition  as  they  were 
when  the  same  was  located  thereon,  subject  to  the  approval 
(jf  the  selectmen  of  said  town  of  Wethersfield. 

Sec.  10.  'No  such  railway  shall  be  constructed  over  any 
highway,  or  any  part   thereof,  without  the  consent  of  the 

auSiesneJes.    sclectmen  of  the  towns,  or  the  Common  Council  of  the  city 

sary  o  cons  rue-  j^g^yjjjg  charge  of  such  hlghways ;  and  so  much  of  the  first 
section  of  the  original  charter  as  provides  that  no  such  rail- 
way shall  be  constructed  over  any  highway,  without  the  con- 

Repeai.  gent  of  the  towns  having  charge  of  such  highways,  is  hereby 

repealed. 

Approved,  July  1,  1862. 

y. 

H.&W.H.R.R.CO.      Section  1.     That  the  rate  of  fare  to  be  charged 

Rates  of  fare.  ~ 

^•^••""'•'•P-'''- Hartford   and   Wethersfield  Horse    Railway   Company   for' 
transporting  one  j^erson  to  or  from  the  town  of  Wethersfield 
over  the  main  line  or  route  of  said  road  from  or  to  any  point 

within  city  limits,  wlthlu  the  Hmlts  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  shall  not  exceed 
fifteen  cents;  and  that  the  rate  of  fare  for  transporting  one 


CORPORATIONS.  187 

person  over  said  main  line,  between  any  two  points  within 

the  present  limits  of  said  city,  shall  not  exceed  seven  cents ; 

and  that  the  rate  of  fare  for  transporting  one  person  over  any  on  branch  unes. 

branch  of  said  main   line  between   any  points  within  the 

present  limits  of  said  city,  shall  not  exceed  seven  cents ;  and  ^ 

that  all  parts  of  the  charter  of  said  company  and  of  the  ^^^^^ 

amendments  thereto  which  are  inconsistent   herewith,  are 

hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  2.  Said  railway  company  shall  at  all  times  keep  for  ^^?^,?  "/tSX*^ 
sale  at  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  said  company,  and  at  least  "^"  ""^  ' 
at  three  other  convenient  places  in  said  city,  tickets  to  the 
number  of  sixteen  for  the  sum  of  one  dollar,  each  of  which 
tickets  shall  transport  one  person  over  said  main  line,  or  over 
any  branch  of  said  main  line  between  any  two  points  within 
the  limits  of  said  city ;  and  said  railroad  company  shall  at  all 
times  keep  for  sale,  at  the  places  aforesaid,  tickets  to  the 
number  of  eight  for  one  dollar,  each  of  which  tickets  last 
mentioned  shall  transport  one  person  to  or  from  the  town  of 
Wethersfield,  over  the  main  line  or  route  of  said  road,  from 
or  to  any  point  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  Hartford. 

Sec.  3.     This  act  may  be  altered,  amended,  or  repealed  at 
the  pleasure  of  the  General  Assembly. 

Approved,  July  1,  1870. 

YI. 
HART:f'ORD  HOME. 

Section  1.     That  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  common  councn 

•  authorized  to 

City  of  Hartford  shall  have  power  and  authority  to  make  HanrordHome. 

.  ^  S.  A.,  vol.  5,  p.  535. 

ordinances  for  the  establishment,  support,  and  maintenance  of 
an  institution  to  be  located  within  the  county  of  Hartford, 
and  known  and  called  by  the  name  of  the  Hartford  Home, 
for  the  reception,  restraint,  support,  government,  and  moral,  o^J^cts. 
intellectual,  and  physical  education  and  culture  of  all 
such  minor  children,  residing  within  the  limits  of  said  citj^, 
as  shall  be  voluntarily  surrendered  to  the  trustees  of  said 
institution  by  their  parents  or  lawful  guardians,  or  shall 
be   committed   to  the  care  of  such  trustees  by  competent 


188 


CORPORATIONS. 


Management. 


Term  of  offioe. 


How  supported.  authorlty ;  and  said  Court  of  Common  Council  may,  for  such 
purpose,  lay  taxes  and  provide  for  the  collection  thereof,  in 
the  same  manner  that  taxes  may  now  or  hereafter  be  laid  and 
collected  for  ordinary  city  purposes :  provided^  that  such  insti- 

Location.  tutlon  shall  not  be  located  in  any  town  except  the  town  of 

Hartford,  without  the  assent  in  writing  of  a  majority  of  the 

Legal  settlement  of  selcctmcn  of  such  towu  ]  aud  provided  further,  that  no  child 
shall  gain  a  legal  settlement  in  any  town  except  the  town  of 
Hartford,  while  under  the  legal  care  and  custody  of  the 
trustees  aforesaid. 

Sec.  2.  The  government  and  general  management  of  said 
Hartford  Home  shall  be  vested  in  five  trustees,  residents  of 
said  City  of  Hartford,  who  shall  be  appointed  by  the  board 
of  police  commissioners  of  said  city,  and  who  shall  hold  their 
offices  respectively  for  the  term  of  five  years  (except  as  here- 
inafter provided,)  and  until  their  successors  shall  be  duly 
appointed  and  qualified  in  their  stead.  Immediately  after  the 
passage  of  this  act,  the  said  board  of  police  commissioners,  at 
a  meeting  specially  warned  for  the  purpose,  shall  appoint  one 

Trustees,  manner  of  trustcc  of  Said  Hartford  Home,  for  the  term  of  one  year,  one 

appointment. 

for  two  years,  one  for  three  years,  one  for  four  years,  and  one 
for  five  years,  from  the  fourth  day  of  July,  1863;  and  annually 
thereafter  in  the  month  of  June,  said  board  shall  appoint  one 
trustee  for  the  term  of  five  years  as  aforesaid ;  and  each  of 
said  trustees  so  appointed  for  the  term  of  five  years,  shall 
enter  upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  in  place  of  his  predecessor, 
on  the  fourth  day  of  July  next  succeeding  his  appointment ; 
and  said  board  of  police  commissioners  may,  at  any  time,  fill 

Vacancy.  auy  vacaucy  for  the  unexpired  term  of  any  trustee,  which 

may  occur  by  death,  resignation,  non-residence  in  said  city, 
or  otherwise ;  and  in  case  said  board  of  police  commissioners 

Chief  Justice  shall   shall,  from  auy  cause,  fail  to  appoint  said  trustees,  as  afore- 

appoint  trustees, 

*''^"-  said,  the  appointment  thereof  shall  then  devolve  upon  the 

chief  justice  of  thie  Supreme  Court  of  this  state,  for  the  time 
being. 

Duties  of  trustees.  Sec.  3.  It  shall  bc  thc  duty  of  said  trustees  to  take  charge 
of  the  general  interests  of  said  Hartford  Home;  to  provide 
for  its  sustenance  and  support,  and  to  exercise  a  careful  and 


CORPORATIONS.  189 

vigilant  supervision  over  all  its  affairs;  to  guard,  as  far  as 
possible,  against  any  harsh  or  arbitrary  exercise  of  authority 
over  the  children  under  their  care;  and  also  against  any  un- 
due exercise  of  sectarian  or  political  influence  over  the  minds 
of  such  children ;  to  appoint  a  superintendent,  and  all  such  superintendeni^ 
subordinate  officers,  assistants,  and  agents,  as  they  may  deem 
necessary,  and  to  fix  the  amount  of  their  compensation,  and  oSl?'*"""  °' 
define  their  duties ;  to  make  by-laws  for  the  government,  sup- 
port, and  management  of  said  Hartford  Home,  not  incon- 
sistent with  law  and  the  ordinances  of  said  City  of  Hartford; 
to  cause  the  proper  registration  of  the  names,  ages,  sex,  place  ^|g|f  ^^'J'^  ""■ 
of  birth  and  parentage,  so  far  as  can  be  ascertained,  of  all 
the  children  committed   to  their  charge;    to  keep  full  and 
accurate  accounts  of  all  expenditures,  receipts,  and  donations,  aJ^ounts.*" '""'^ 
on  account  of  said  Hartford  Home,  and  to  make  an  annual 
report  in  the  month  of  January  in  each  year  to  the  board  of  ^^nuai  report. 
police  commissioners,  giving  a  full  and  concise  history  of  the 
financial   and   general   operations  and  transactions  of   said 
Hartford  Home,  for  the  year  preceding,  which  report  shall 
be  laid  by  said  police  commissioners  before  the  honorable  ^ppi-o^aivcom- 

•J  1  mon  Council. 

Court  of  Common  Council  for  approval. 

Sec.  4.     All  moneys  raised  by  taxation  for  the  support  and  Moneys. 
maintenance  of  said  Hartford  Home  shall  be  paid  into  the 
hands  of  the  treasurer  of  said  city,  and  shall  be  applied  to 
the  i^urposes  for  which  it  was  so  raised,  and  for  no  other 
purpose  whatever. 

Sec.  5.     K  any  person  residing  in  said  city,  who  has  had  J^dgeof^poiice^^^ 
relief  or  supplies  from  said  town  of  Hartford,  shall  suffer  his  Hartford'Hom"  by 

approval  of  mayor, 

children  to  misspend  their  time  and  live  in  idleness,  and  shall  '^^'^"• 
neglect  to  bring  them  up  and  employ  them  in  some  honest 
calling;  or  if  any  family  in  said  city  cannot  or  does  not 
provide  competently  for  their  children,  whereby  they  are 
oxjDOsed  to  want;  or  if  any  poor  children  residing  in  said 
city,  live  idly  or  are  exposed  to  want  and  distress,  and  there 
are  none,  to  take  care  of  them;  or  if  any  heads  of  families 
residing  in  said  city  shall  neglect  the  education  of  the  chil- 
dren under  their  charge,  after  due  admonition  by  the  judge 


190 


CORPORATIONS. 


Powers  and  duties 
of  trustees  de 
children. 


Trustees  may 
apprentice  during 
minority. 


Trustees  may 
receive  minor 
children  otherwise, 
when. 


of  the  Police  Court  of  said  city,  whereby  such  children  grow 
up  rude,  stubborn,  and  unruly,  or  if  there  be  found  residing 
in  said  city  any  minor  children,  over  whom  there  is  exercised 
no  proper  parental  or  moral  restraint,  and  who,  from  such 
neglect  and  exposure,  have  fallen,  or  are  in  manifest  danger 
of  falling  into  habits  of  vice  and  immorality,  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  said  judge  of  the  Police  Court  to  cause  such 
minor  children  to  be  brought  before  him,  upon  his  proper 
warrant  duly  issued  for  such  purpose;  and  said  judge  shall 
cause  proper  notice  to  be  given  to  the  parents  or  guardians 
of  such  children,  if  any  there  be  residing  in  said  city,  and 
upon  such  notice  and  a  full  hearing,  said  judge  may,  with  the 
approval  of  the  mayor  of  said  city,  bind  out  all  such  minor 
children  to  the  trustees  of  said  Hartford  Home;  males  till 
twenty-one,  and  females  till  eighteen  years  of  age,  that  they 
may  be  properly  educated  and  brought  up  to  some  lawful 
calling  and  employment ;  and  said  trustees  shall  have  all  the 
rights  and  shall  discharge  all  the  duties  in  relation  to  the 
children  committed  to  their  custody,  pertaining  to  the 
parental  relation,  and  may  re-indenture  and  apprentice  such 
children  to  proper  masters  during  their  minority  as  afore- 
said ;  males  till  twenty-one  and  females  till  eighteen  years  of 
age ;  to  be  properly  educated  and  brought  up  to  some  lawful 
calling  and  employment;  said  trustees  may  also  receive  all 
such  minor  children  as  shall  be  voluntarily  surrendered  to 
them  by  the  parents  or  guardians  having  the  legal  custody 
and  control  of  such  children,  and  shall  have  the  same  powers 
and  discharge  the  same  duties  in  relation  to  the  children  so 
surrendered,  as  are  herein  provided  for  children  bound  to 
them  by  the  judge  of  the  Police  Court  as  aforesaid.     And 


Trustees  may  cancel  S^ld 
indentures. 


trustees   shall   have   and   exercise   all   the   rights   and 


Visits  of  trustees. 


powers  to  inquire  into  the  treatment  by  their  masters  of  the 
children  by  them  indentured,  and  to  cause  such  indentures  to 
be  canceled,  that  parents,  guardians,  or  selectmen  now  by 
law  have  in  relation  to  children  by  them  indentured. 

Sec.  6.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  one  or  more  of  said  trus- 
tees to  visit  said  Hartford  Home  as  often,  at  least,  as  once  in 


CORPORATIONS.  191 

each  month,  and  inspect  every  apartment,  and  the  accounts 
and  register  of  the  institution,  to  see  that  the  by-laws,  rules, 
regulations,  and  orders  of  the  trustees  are  properly  observed        » 
and  obeyed ;  to  see  that  no  abuse  or  mismanagement  is  prac- 
ticed; and  in  general  to  exercise  a  vigilant  and  scrupulous  ^ . 

supervision  over  every  department  of  such  institution  and 
the  management  of  all  its  aifairs,  and  it  shall  also  be  the  duty 
of  one  or  more  of  the  police  commissioners  aforesaid  to  visit  JommisIionS 
said  institution  as  often,  at  least,  as  once  in  each  quarter,  for 
the  like  purpose  of  inspecting  its  condition,  and  the  manage- 
ment of  all  its  affairs. 

Sec.  7.  Said  trustees  may  receive  for  the  benefit  of  said  ^/"eive^pr^SJerty  for 
Hartford  Home,  donations,  gifts,  bequests,  deeds,  and  grants 
of  money,  choses  in  action,  lands,  rents,  incomes  or  other 
property,  from  any  person,  association  or  incorporation ;  and 
when  so  directed  by  the  parties  making  such  donations, 
bequest,  deeds,  and  grants  as  aforesaid  in  writing,  may  hold 
or  dispose  of  the  same  in  their  own  name  as  such  trustees, 
and  apply  the  avails  thereof,  according  to  such  directions; 
and  all  such  donations,  bequests,  deeds,  and  grants,  when  not 
otherwise  ordered,  in  writing,  by  the  donors,  shall  vest  in  the  Property  donated  to 

'  O?       ./  J  vest  in  the  city, 

City  of  Hartford,  and  the  avails  thereof  shall  be  paid  into  ^^^''' 
the  city  treasury,  and  applied  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  said 
Hartford  Home,  and  for  no  other  purpose  whatever.     And 
said  trustees  may  form   an   alliance,  as   auxiliary  to  them,  Trustees  may  form 

•^  '  t/  ;   alliance. 

with  any  other  association  incorporated  for  the  same  general 
purposes  contemplated  by  this  act ;  and  may  admit  to  a  share 
and  participation  with  themselves,  in  the  government,  sup- 
port, management,  and  control  of  said  Hartford  Home,  so 
many  trustees,  to  be  appointed  by  such  auxiliary  incorpora-  Auxiliary  trustees. 
tion  or  incorporations,  not  at  any  one  time  exceeding  four,  as 
shall  be  mutually  agreed  upon;  and  said  auxiliary  trustees 
shall,  when  so  admitted,  have  and  exercise  all  the  powers, 
rights,  and  privileges  conferred  upon  the  trustees  appointed 
under  this  act. 

Provided.  That  no  such  alliance  shall  be  formed,  nor  auxil-  Approval  of 

'  '  alliance. 

iary  trustees  admitted,  except  under  a  covenant  or  agreement 


192  CORPORATIONS. 

in  writing,  duly  executed   by  the   parties   thereto,  and   ap- 
proved  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  said  City  of 
I        Hartford. 
Police  commis-  Sec.  8.     Tho  board  of  police  commissioners  may,  at  any 

sioners  may  annul  -I  J  t  J 

L^otSThen!'"''  time,  upon  giving  proper  notice  to  the  said  trustees,  cancel 
and  annul  any  indentures  made  to  said  trustees  by  the  said 
judge  of  the  l^olice  Court,  whenever  they  shall  find  upon  a 
full  hearing  of  the  parties  interested,  that  such  cancellation, 
in  their  judgment,  will  be  an  act  of  justice  to  the  said  parties. 

maypas'loXances      ^^^'  ^'     ^^^  Court  of  Commou  Couucll  of  Said  city  shall 

to  carry  out  provis-     t  j  •  n      j  i  i  , 

ions  of  this  act.  uavc  auQ  cxercisc  all  the  powers  necessary  and  proper  to 
carry  into  full  effect  all  the  purposes  contemplated  by  this 
act^  and  may  make  ordinances  prescribing  the  form  and  man- 
ner in  which  all  the  accounts  of  said  Hartford  Home  shall  be 
kept,  audited,  liquidated,  and  paid;  the  bonds  and  oaths  of 
the  trustees,  officers,  and  agents  thereof;  and  the  manner  in 
which  all  the  affairs  of  said  Hartford  Home  shall  be  man- 
aged and  conducted:  'provided^  said  ordinances  shall  not  be 
inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  act. 
Approved,  June  24,  1863. 


YII. 

THE  HARTFORD  STEAM  COMPANY. 
Powers  in  streets.        Said  corDoratiou  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to 

S.  A.,  1879,  p.  106,  -^  "^  ^ 

*^-  manufacture,  use,  and  sell  steam  within  the  city  or  town  of 

Hartford,  for  any  purpose,  and  may  heat  any  public  or 
private  building  within  said  territory,  by  means  of  steam  or 
hot  water  conducted  in  pipes  through  the  streets  and  public 
grounds  of  said  city  or  town,  and  may  make  and  enter  into 
contracts  to  furnish  such  quantities  of  steam  or  hot  water  as 
may  be  required  for  heating  any  buildings,  or  for  other  pur- 
poses, in  said  city  or  town,  and  enforce  the  same.  Said  cor- 
poration is  also  empowered  to  erect  buildings  or  other  works 
necessary  to  carry  on  the  business  of  said  corporation,  and 
shall  have  general  power  to  do  all  things  necessary  to  the 


CORPORATIONS.  I  193 

successful  prosecution  of  the  business  of  said  corporation. 
But  before  using  any  of  the  streets  or  public  grounds  of  said 
city  for  the  purpose  of  this  act,  the  consent  of  the  Common  courcn\'*equird"ror 
Council   of  said   city   shall   be   obtained,  and   said   consent"' 
having  been  obtained,  said  corporation  shall  be  empowered      .  — 

to  lay  down  their  steam  and  hot  water  pipes  and  radiators, 
or  other  apparatus  necessary  to  carry  on  said  business,  in  the 
streets,  alleys,  lanes,  avenues,  or  public  grounds  of  said  city 
or  town  of  Hartford;  and,  in  the  location  of  their  works, 
and  in  laying  their  pipes  or  other  conductors  of  heat,  said 
corporation  shall  be  subject  to  the  orders  and  general  direc- 
tion of  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  said  city;  and  the 
streets,  side  and  crosswalks,  public  grounds,  alleys,  lanes,  and  fn/ured^***'''^ 
avenues  shall  not  be  injured,  but  shall  be  left  in  as  good  con- 
dition as  before  the  laying  of  any  pipe  or  other  apparatus  in 
the  same  by  said  corporation,  and  said  corporation  shall 
repair  all  defects  or  injuries  to  said  streets,  side  and  cross- 
walks, public  grounds,  alleys,  lanes,  and  avenues,  caused  by 
its  use  of  the  same  for  the  purposes  of  this  act,  to  the  satis- 
faction of  the  board  of  street  commissioners  of  said  city. 
Said  corporation  shall  be  liable  for  any  injury  done  to  any  Liability  for 
public  or  private  property  in  the  construction  of  their  works, 
or  the  laying  of  any  pipes  or  other  apparatus  used  for  carry- 
ing on  the  business  authorized  by  this  act. 
Approved,  March  25,  1879. 

YIII. 

HARTFORt)  ELECTRIC  LIGHT  COMPANY. 

Said  corporation  is  hereby  empowered  and  authorized  to  I'^^^^J^/^^^/ij- 
manufacture  and  sell  electric  light  and  electricity  within  the  ^^' 
city  and  town  of  Hartford,  for  any  purposes  whatever,  and 
may  light  any  public  or  private  buildings  or  grounds,  streets, 
avenues,  lanes,  parks,  and  squares  within  said  territory,  by 
means  of  electricity  conducted  by  wires  through,  over,  or 
along,  or  across  the  streets  and  public  grounds  of  said  city 
or  town,  and  may  make  and  enter  into  contracts  to  furnish 


194  CORPORATIONS. 

such  quantities  of  electricity  as  may  be  required  for  lighting 
any  streets  or  buildings  or  other  places,  or  for  other  purposes 
in  said  city  or  town,  and  may  enforce  the  same.  Said  corpo- 
ration is  also  authorized  to  erect  such  buildings,  poles,  posts, 
,  fixtures,  or  other  works  or  structures  necessary  to  carry  on 
the  business  of  said  corporation,  and  to  buy,  own,  sell,  and 
deal  in  all  patent  rights  and  other  property  necessary  or  con- 
venient for  the  purposes  of  said  corporation,  and  generally 
shall  have  power  to  do  all  things  necessary  to  the  proper 
management  of  its  business :  provided^  that  before  said  corpo- 
consent  of  Common  ratlou  shall  crcct  auy  structures,  or  suspend  any  wires  upon 
or  over  the  streets  or  public  grounds  of  said  city,  the  consent 
of  the  Common  Council  of  said  city  shall  first  be  obtained, 
and  all  such  structures  shall  be  erected  and  m'aintained  sub- 
ject to  the  approval  of  the  board  of  street  commissioners  of 
said  city. 

Approved,  April  12,  1881. 


Amended^powers.  Section  1.  Thc  Hartford  Electric  Light  Company  is 
hereby  empowered  and  authorized  to  construct  and  maintain 
a  line  of  wires  for  the  purj)ose  of  conducting  electric  currents, 
between  some  convenient  point  in  the  City  of  Hartford  and 
some  convenient  point  without  said  city  and  in  either  of  the 
towns  of  "Windsor  Locks,  Manchester,  Simsbury,  or  Windsor, 
where  the  works  of  said  company  may  hereafter  be  located. 
Said  wires  are  to  be  laid  in  the  ground  or  suspended  upon 
poles  along  any  public  highway  between  said  points,  in  the 
manner,  and  subject  to  all  the  provisions  of  the  general  stat- 
utes relating  to  the  construction  of  lines  by  telegraph  and 
telephone  companies. 

May  lay  wires  under      Sec.  2.     Said  compauy  may,  within  the  limits  of  the  City 

ground. 

of  Hartford,  lay  down,  construct,  and  maintain  beneath  the 
surface  of  the  ground  and  in  the  public  streets  of  said  city, 
lines  of  wires  enclosed  in  pipes  or  otherwise  insulated  and 
protected,  or  other  apparatus  for  conducting  electric  currents 
about  said  city,  and  may  use  said  lines  of  wires  or  conductors 
for  the  purposes  of  said  company's  business  as  provided  in 


CORPORATIONS.  195 

its  charter,  and  may  license  other  companies  organized  for 
telegraph  and  telephone  purposes  to  use  the  same  for  any 
lawful  purpose  within  the  scope  of  their  corporate  powers,  » 
and  particularly  for  transmitting  messages  by  telegraph  and 
telephone.     Whenever  any  of  said  streets  and  highways  shall  i^j^rrd^"^"^*"**^ 
be  dug  up  and  excavated  for  any  of  the  purposes  expressed 
in  this  resolution,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  company  to 
restore  them  to  as  good  condition  as  they  were  in  before 
making  such  excavation ;  and  all  such  excavations  and  resto- 
rations shall  be  made  only  with  the  consent  and  approval, 
and  under  the  supervision,  of  the  town  and  city  authorities 
having  charge  of  said  streets  and  highways. 
Approved,  April  24,  1883. 


( 


OEDINANCES 


I 


ORDII^ANCES 


CITY  OF   HARTFORD 


K,evi8ii«ioii  of  1  S83- 


CHAPTEE  I. 


CITY  AND  COUNCIL  MEETINGS. 


City  meetings. 

Ward  meetings. 

Manner  of  conducting  the  same. 

What  oflQcers  elected  at. 

Canvassers  of  city  and  ward  meetings. 


Proclamation  of  election  by  mayor. 
Special  elections  to  fill  vacancies,  how 

called. 
City  and  Court  of  Common  Council 

meetings,  how  called. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Coyyimon  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford. 

Section  1.     Annual  ward  meetings  for  the  election  of  city  Annual  ward 

meetings,  when  and 

and  ward  officers,  shall  hereafter  be  held  in  the  several  wards  ^''•'ereheui. 
of  said  city,   simultaneously  in  all   the  wards  on  the  first 
Monday  of  April  in  each  year,  and  shall  be  warned  in  the 
manner   hereinafter  provided,  without  any   previous  order 
of  the  Court  of  Common  Council. 
Sec.  2.     The  annual  city  meeting  for  the  election  of  city  city  and  ward 

meetings  to  l)e  held 

and  ward  officers,  and  all  other  city  and  ward  meetings  shall  j^ayof si^u'" *" 
be  held  at  such  places,  in  the  respective  wards,  as  the  mayor,  '^*'"^°'*"'' 
or  other  officer  acting  in  place  of  the  mayor,  shall,  in  his 


200  CITY    AND   COUNCIL    MEETINGS. 


ftoms1*x^oc*iock  warrant  warning  the  same,  designate,  and  the  polls  shall  be 
until  Ave  o  clock.  Qpgjjg^j  ^t  six  o'clock  In  the  forenoon,  and  remain  open  until 
five  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of  said  day,  and  no  longer,  at 
each  of  said  meetings;  and  the  Court  of  Common  Council 
shall  cause  to  be  provided,  at  the  expense  of  the  city,  suitable 
ballot-boxes,  and  books  of  record  for  each  of  said  wards,  and 
when  not  required  for  use  at  said  meetings,  the  same  shall  be 
placed  in  the  custody  of  the  clerk  of  said  city. 
Presiding  officer  at       Sec.  3.     It  shall  bc  thc  dutv  of  the  alderman  of  each  ward, 

•  ward  meetings.  '' 

who  was  chosen  at  the  last  annual  election,  to  preside" 
at  all  meetings  of  the  freemen  of  the  ward  where  he  was 
elected  to  office,  (except  when  otherwise  provided  by  the 
statutes  of  this  state,)  and  he  shall  have  full  power  and 
authority  to  preserve  order  and  decorum  therein,  to  repress 
all  riotous,  tumultuous,  and  disorderly  conduct,  and  for  that 
purpose  he  may  call  to  his  aid  any  police  officer,  and  may 
Powers  of  to  pre-     also  commaud  the  assistance  of  any  citizen  or  citizens  who 

serve  order,  etc.  "^ 

may  be  present ;  and  any  citizen  neglecting'  or  refusing  to 
afford  such  aid  when  so  required,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the 
treasurer  of  said  city  the  sum  of  five  dollars  for  each  and 
every  offence. 
Disorderly  conduct       And  Said  prcsidiuff  officer  shall  also  have  power  and  au- 

may  be  punished,  ±  o  j- 

''*"'•  thority  to  cause  any  person  or  persons  who  may  be  guilty  of 

any  riotous,  tumultuous,  or  disorderly  conduct,  at  such  meet- 
ings, to  be  taken  into  custody  and  restrained  until  the  ad- 
journment of  said  meeting,  and  the  said  person  so  guilty  of 
disorderly  conduct,  notwithstanding  such  restraint,  shall  be 
liable  to  be  prosecuted  and  punished  in  the  same  manner  as 
if  such  arrest  and  restraint  had  not  been  made. 

If  any  person  or  persons  shall,  by  noise,  tumult,  quarreling, 
or  any  disorderly  conduct  whatever,  disturb  any  such  ward 

Abuse^  presiding  mcctiug,  or  shall  villify,  abuse,  or  interrupt  the  presiding 
officer  of  such  meeting,  he  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  City  of 
Hartford,  for  the  use  of  the  city  treasurer,  the  sum  of  not 
less  than  one  dollar  nor  more  ihan  five  dollars,  for  each  and 
every  offence.^ 

» See  p.  74, 1,  and  p.  75,  §  24. 
^  See  R.  S.,  1875,  p.  010,  ?  15. 


OITY   AND    COUNCIL    MEETINGS.  201 

Sec.  4.     That  in  case  the  alderman  mentioned  in  the  pre-  Mayor  may  appoint 

A  presiding  oflacer, 

ceding  section  shall  be  absent  at  any  meeting  of  the  freemen  ^^^''' 

of  the  ward  whenever  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  preside  thereat, 

the  mayor  shall  appoint  some  suitable  person  to  preside  at 

such  meeting;  and  the  presiding  officer  of  any  such  meeting  -    - 

in  each  ward  shall  appoint  a  clerk  for  such  ward,  whose  duty  ^^''^'-'i  ''^^'^■ 

it  shall  be  to  make  a  fair  and  true  record,  and  keep  an  exact 

journal  of  all  the  acts  and  votes  of  the  freemen  at  their 

several  ward  meetings,  and  to  deliver  over  to  the  city  clerk, 

for  safe  keeping,  all  such  records,  journals,  documents,  and  SstodroVvote/^ 

other  papers,  as  may  be  held  by  him  in  his  said  capacity,  """ 

within  twenty-four  hours  after  adjournment  of  each  ward 

meeting,  which  said  records  and  documents  shall,  at  all  times, 

be  open,  and  subject  to  the  inspection  of  all  the  citizens  of 

said  City  of  Hartford. 

Sec  5.     That  all  the  freemen  of  said  City  of  Hartford,  who  cuy  electors  may 

•/  '  vote,  where. 

are  legally  qualified  to  vote  in  city  meetings,  shall  be  voters 
in  the  ward  in  which  they  respectively  reside  and  have  their 
home ;  and  the  residence  or  home  of  each  voter  shall  be  in 
the  ward  where  he  has  his  place  of  lodging,  and  no  person 
shall  have  a  right  to  vote  in  any  ward  until  he  has  resided  in 
said  ward  at  least  sixty  days  next  preceding  the  time  of  said 
voting:  provided,  that  no  one  shall  lose  his  right  to  vote  in 
the  ward  of  his  last  previous  residence  in  less  than  sixty  days  when  change  of 

J-  «/  »/       residence,  where  to 

from  his  removal  if  he  still  resides  in  the  city.     And  if  any  '"'^' 

person  not  a  legally  qualified  voter  shall  vote  at  any  city  or 

ward  election,  or  if  any  lesjal  vo1;er  shall  vote  in  more  than  penalty  for  uiegai 

'  *'  ^  or  double  voting. 

one  ward,  or  give  in  more  than  one  ballot  at  any  such  elec- 
tion, such  person  so  voting,  or  such  legal  voter,  so  voting  in 
more  than  one  ward,  or  depositing  more  than  one  ballot,  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  to  the  City  of  Hartford,  for  the  use  of  the 
city  treasury  the  sum  of  seventeen  dollars  for  each  offence. 

Sec  G.     At  the  annual  ward  meetinf»:s,  as  aforesaid,  there  city omcers chosen 

'-'    '  'at  annual  meetings. 

(shall  be  chosen  for  said  city,  by  the  freemen  thereof,  by  bal- 
lot, a  mayor  and  a  city  collector,  if  the  official  term  of  the  ' 
mayor  and  city  collector  shall  then  expire,  a  city  clerk,  a 
treasurer,  an  auditor  of  city  accounts,  and  a  city  marshal; 
and  there  shall  be  also  chosen  for  each  ward,  by  the  freemen 


202 


CITY   AND   COUNCIL    MEETINGS. 


■Ward  officers 
chosen. 


Plnrality  Vote 
elects. 


featlot  boxes  in  care 
of  presiding  officer. 


Billlots,  how  voted. 


Presiding  officer 
decides  as  to 
legality  of  votes. 


Tellers,  how 
Appointed. 


thereof,  an  alderman,  and  four  common  councilmen,  who  shall 
be  residents  of  the  ward  where  chosen,  and  shall  all  be  voted 
for  at  one  ballot,  and  whose  names  shall  be  either  written  or 
printed  on  one  piece  of  paj)er,  with  the  office  for  Avhich  each 
person  is  intended  designated  thereon;  and  the  persons  hav- 
ing the  greatest  number  of  votes  for  each  of  said  city  offices* 
and  for  alderman,  and  the  four  persons  in  each  ward  having 
the  greatest  number  of  votes  for  common  councilmen,  shall 
be  duly  elected  to  such  offices,  respectively,  for  the  full  term 
thereof,  and  until  their  successors  are  duly  chosen,  and  shall 
be  so  declared  and  returned. 

Sec.  7.  The  ballot-boic  in  each  ward  shall,  during  the  time 
the  polls  remain  open  at  any  ward  meeting,  and  until  the 
votes  are  duly  counted,  be  under  the  special  care  of  such  offi- 
cer, or  other  person,  as  the  presiding  officer  of  such  meeting 
shall  appoint*  (except  when  otherwise  provided  by  the  stat- 
utes of  this  State) ;  and  all  ballots  shall  be  laid  on  the  lid  of 
the  ballot-box,  and  the  name  of  each  person  shall  be  checked 
upon  the  ward  list,  and  being  so  checked,  his  ballot  shall  then 
be  put  into  the  ballot-box  by  the  officer  or  j)erson  in  charge 
of  said  ballot-box,  or  the  voter  shall  be  permitted  to  deposit 
the  same,  and  said  i)residing  officer  shall  see  that  the  names 
are  so  checked,  and  for  that  purpose  may  call  to  his  aid  such 
person  or  persons  as  he  may  think  proper  ;^  and  such  presid- 
ing officer,  at  any  city  or  ward  meeting,  before  receiving  any 
Vote  there  offered,  may  examine  the  person  offering  to  vote, 
and  other  witnesses,  under  oath,  concerning  the  qualifications 
of  such  person  as  an  elector  of  said  city,  and  decide  concern- 
ing the  same." 

Sec.  8.  The  presiding  officer,  in  each  ward,  shall  appoint 
not  more  than  eight  tellers,  to  receive  and  count  all  votes 
given  in  their  respective  wards,  immediately  after  the  clos- 
ing of  the  polls,  in  open  meeting*^  (except  when  otherwise 
provided  by  the  statutes  of  this  state) ;  and  all  the  votes  so 
given  shall  be  declared  by  the  presiding  officer,  and  recorded 
at  large  in  open  meeting  by  the  clerk;  and  in  making  such 


"  See  p.  75,  §  25. 

1'  See  P.  A.,  1877,  p.  241,  ?  28. 


"  See  P.  A.,  1877,  p.  241, 
■»  See  p.  70,  g  3;i. 


27. 


CITY    AND    COUNCIL    MEETINGS.  203 

declaration  and  record,  the  whole  number  of  votes  given  in  votes,  how  counted. 
i^hall  be  distinctly  stated,  together  with  the  names  of  every 
person  voted  for,  the  number  of  votes  given  for  each  person 
tor  any  office,  respectively,  and  the  name  of  each  and  every 

person  there  found  to  be  elected  as  alderman,  or  common         _^^^ 

councilman,  for  such  ward;*  and  at  the  close,  and  within 
twenty-four  hours  after  the  adjournment  of  such  meeting, 
the  clerk  of  such  ward  shall  deliver  to  the  clerk  of  the  city  ward  curk  shaii 

•^    deliver  to  city  clerk 

a  transcript  of  the  record  of  such  votes,  duly  signed  and  SdcdTuhiu 

twenty-four  hours. 

certified  by  the  presiding  officer  and  clerk  of  such  ward; 
nnd  the  said  city  clerk  shall  forthwith  record  such  tran- 
script, or  a  plain  and  intelligent  abstract  thereof,  upon  the  city  cierk  shau 

i-     J  ^  o  '       -»■  record  same  on  city 

city  records,  or  upon  some  book  to  be  kept  for  that  purpose ;  '■'""""^'• 

and  any  presiding  officer,  or  ward  or  city  clerk,  who  shall 

make,   certify,   or  record,   any  false    or  illegal    return    or  False  returns,  how 

abstract  of  such  votes,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  treasurer 

of  the  City  of  Hartford,  for  the  use  of  said  city,  the  sum  of 

thirty  dollars  for  each  and  every  such  offence. 

Sec.  9.     The  clerk  of  each  ward  shall  also,  within  twenty-  Notice  of  ward 

*'      election  to  be  given 

four  hours  after  the  close  of  any  ward  meeting,  deliver  to  wifhYu  uvelui^four 
each  person  found  and  declared  by  the  presiding  officer  of 
the  ward  to  have'*been  elected  as  alderman  or  common  coun- 
cilman of  such  ward,  or  shall  leave  at  his  usual  place  of 
abode,  a  certificate  of  such  election  signed  by  such  clerk, 
which  certificate  shall  be  presumptive  evidence  of  such  elec- 
Jtion,  and  shall  entitle  such  person  to  a  seat  in  the  Court  of 
Common  Council:  provided,  however,  that  the  Court  of  Com- 
mon Council  shall  have  authority  to  decide  ultimately  upon  QuaUHcation 

•^  >J         X  members  of  ' 

all   questions   relative   to   the   qualifications,    elections,   and  de'termined 
returns  of  its  members,  but  no  member  shall  vote  upon  any 
question  relative  to  his  own  right  to  a  seat  in  the  council. 

Sec.  10.     The  mayor,  aldermen,  and  common  councilmen.  Board  of  can 

vasscrs. 

last  chosen,  shall  constitute  a  board  of  canvassers  of  all  city 
or  ward  elections,  and  a  majority  of  the  members  of  said 
board  shall  constitute  a  quorum,  and  the  mayor  shall  be  the 
presiding  officer,  or  in  his  absence  a  presiding  officer  shall  be 
chosen  by  the  board,  and  said   board  shall  meet  together 

»  See  p.  76, 1 33. 


of 

members  of  Corn- 
Council,  how 


204  CITY   AND   COUNCIL    MEETINGS. 

Canvassers  shall     withiii  two  davs  aftei"  any  such  election,  and  compare  all  the 

meet  within  two  J  ,1  j  1 

days  after  election.  ^^^^^^^  ^^f  ^.^tcs,  and  asccrtain  what  officers,  whether  city  or 

ward,  are  duly  elected,  and  shall  furnish  to  each  and  every 

Certificate  of  cicc    person  SO  found  to  be  duly  elected  to  any  office,  a  certificate 

tjon  to  be  furnished.  ■•■  t/  ./  ? 

of  his  election,  certified  by  the  clerk  of  said  city;  and  the 
mayor,  or  other  presiding  officer  of  the  said  board  of  can- 
vassers, shall  thereupon,  upon  the  order  of  said  board,  issue 
prociamatiou  of     to   thc   pubUc    his    proclamatiou    of   the    election   of   such 

mayor.  -■-  ^ 

persons. 
Meeting,  when  and       Aud  iu  casc  Said  board  shall  find  that  no  person  has  been 

how  called  in  case  ■•■ 

of  no  election.  ^^^  electcd  to  auy  or  either  of  said  offices,  whether  ward  or 
city,  the  mayor,  or  other  presiding  officer  of  the  said  board 
of  canvassers,  shall  also  make  the  j)ublic  proclamation 
thereof,  and  shall  issue  his  warrant  for  a  special  election  in 
each  of  said  wards,  or  either,  or  so  many  of  said  wards  as 
may  be  necessary  to  fill  such  vacancy  or  vacancies  so  found, 
on  the  Monday  next  succeeding  such  last  city  or  ward  meet- 
ing, and  at  any  sj)ecial  city  or  ward  meeting  the  same  rules 
and  proceedings,  in  all  respects,  shall  be  observed  as  are  pro- 
vided for  annual  city  or  ward  meetings.     And  the  mayor 

fiiwicL^cle""when  ^^^7  ^^11  spcclal  clty  or  ward  meetings,  by  warrant,  as  afore- 
said, at  any  time  when  so  ordered  by  said  Court  of  Common 
Council,  to  fill  any  vacancy  which  may  happen  in  any  city 
or  ward  office  by  death,  resignation,  or  otherwise. 

Pay  of  election  Sec.  11.     Thcrc  shall  bc  allowed  and  paid  from  the  treas- 

ury of  the  city  to  the  presiding  officer  of  each  ward,  ten 
dollars;  to  the  clerk  of  each  ward,  three  dollars;  to  the 
person  having  charge  of  the  ballot  box,  five  dollars;  to  an 
assistant  box  tender,  three  dollars;  to  each  of  two  persons 
who  may  be  appointed  by  the  presiding  officer  of  any  ward 
to  check  the  electors'  lists,  five  dollars;  and  to  the  deputy 
registrar,  five  dollars  for  each  day  such  officers  or  persons 
shall  severally  be  engaged  in  their  respective  duties  at  any- 
city  or  ward  election,  which  allowances  shall  be  approved 
and  certified  by  one  of  the  deputy  registrars  of  each  ward 
where  such  services  were  rendered,  and  by  one  of  the  regis- 
trars, and  no  other  expenses  of  any  kind  shall  be  incurred  at 
any  such  election  to  be  paid  for  by  the  city. 


be  called. 


officers. 


CITY   AND*  COUNCIL    MEETINrsS.  205 

Sec.  12.     The  city  clerk  shall  be  the  clerk  of  all  joint  con-  ci'^,«J«^^'«|-^,«>^, 
ventions  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  and  also  of  the  aDd'bo°a"rd  0""''' ' 

canvassers. 

board  of  canvassers,  and  in  his  absence  a  clerk  ;pro  tempore 

shall  be  chosen;  and  the  city  clerk  shall  have  the  custody  R^orf_s of  common 

and  care  of  all  the  records  and  papers  of  the  common  coun-  cierr'^^"^ 

eil  board,  after  final  action  thereon  has  been  taken  by  said 

board ;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  clerk  of  said  board  to 

deliver  the  same  to  said  city  clerk,  who  shall  give  true  and 

attested  copies  thereof  whenever  required  so  to  do. 

Sec.  13.     The  mayor,  or  in  case  of  his  absence  or  disa-  ^^Ife!;',"'^""^''  ""^ 
bility,  the  acting  president  of  the  board  of  aldermen,  or  in 
the  absence  of  the  mayor  and  of  said  president,  the  senior 
alderman  present  in  the  city  may,  at  any  time,  and  when 
thereunto   instructed  by  order  of   the  Court   of   Common 
Council,  shall  call  a  city  meeting ;  and  may,  at  any  time,  and 
upon  the  request  in  writing  of  any  two  members  of  the  ^,^™rg",^hoT" 
board  of  aldermen,  and  four  members  of  the  common  council  *"*  ^ ' 
board  shall,  without  unreasonable  delay,  call  a  meeting  of 
the  Court  of  Common  Council,  by  issuing  a  warrant  to  the 
marshal  or  any  deputy  marshal  of  the  city,  requiring  him  to 
notify  the  electors  of  the  city,  or  the  members  of  the  Court 
of  Common  Council,  as  the  case  may  be,  that  such  meeting  ^'haujou^.e^to^^^^ 
will  be  holden  at  the  time  and  place  in  such  warrant  desig-  mSTs.  °""''* 
nated,  which  warrant,  in  the  case  of  a  city  meeting  shall 
specify  the  objects  thereof,  and  shall  be  issued  and  served  at 
least  two  days  before  the  day  when  such  meeting  is  to  be 
holden,  and  service  of  said  warrant  shall  be  made  by  causing 
a  true  and  attested  copy  thereof  to  be  published  in  at  least 
two  daily  newspapers  issued  in  the  City  of  -Hartford,  and  by 
fixing  a  true  and  attested  copy  thereof  on  the  public  sign- 
post in  said  city.     The  Court  of  Common  Council,  whenever,  common couudi 

I  >J  '  '   may  prescribe 

in  their  judgment,  an  emergency  requires  a  city  meeting  to  wS' '"""'*'' 
be  called  on  shorter  notice,  may,  by  a  suitable  vote,  prescribe 
the  manner  of  warning  the  same.  Warrants  for  city  meet- 
ings shall  be  returned  before  the  meeting  to  the  city  clerk,  f/'^lfra^n"!'^^''''" 
with  a  suitable  endorsement  of  service.  All  warrants  for 
meetings  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  be  served 
])y  leaving  a  copy  thereof  with  each  member  of  said  court, 


206 


ELECTION    OF    CERTAIN    CITY    OFFICERS. 


or  lit  his  usual  j^lacc  of  abode,  and  shall  be  returned,  with  a 
proper  endorsement  of  service,  before  said  meeting,  to  the 
clerk  of  the  board  of  aldermen ;  and  a  certified  copy  thereof* 
and  of  said  endorsement  shall,  before  said  meeting,  be  left 
with  the  clerk  of  the  common  council  board. 


CHAPTEE  II. 


ELECTION  AND  DUTIES  OF  CERTAIN  CITY  OFFICERS. 


Joint  Convention  of  Common  Council, 

when  held. 
Other  oflBcers,  when  and  how  chosen; 

and  terms  of  office. 
Vacancies,  how  filled. 
President  of  Council  may  vote,  when. 
Duties  of  city  clerk. 
Journals  of  Court  of  Common  Council. 


City  weigher,  and  duties. 

Inspector  of  fire  wood,  and  duties. 

Deputies  of. 

Sealer  of  weights  and  measures,  and 

duties. 
Inspection  of  milk. 
Port  warden,  and  duties. 
Jurors  of  City  Court,  how  appointed. 


Joiut  couvcutiou, 
when  held  for  elec- 
tion of  officers. 


Vacancies,  how 
tilled. 


Officers  chosen 
annually  by  con- 
current vote. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford. 

Section  1.  A  meeting  of  the  entire  Court  of  Common 
Council  shall  be  holden  yearly  upon  the  second  Monday  after 
the  annual  city  election,  for  the  choice  of  such  officers  as  arc 
to  be  chosen  by  said  court  in  joint  convention.  If  any 
vacancy  shall  occur  in  any  of  the  offices  filled  by  this  board 
in  joint  convention,  said  vacancy  may  be  filled  at  a  meeting 
of  the  same  especially  w^arned  for  that  purpose,  and  the 
person  chosen  to  fill  such  vacancy  shall  hold  his  office  until 
the  next  annual  meeting  of  said  board,  and  until  another  b< 
chosen  in  his  place,  and  sworn. 

Sec.  2.  A  meeting  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council  shal 
be  holden  annually  within  fifteen  days  after  the  annual  city 
election,  for  the  choice  of  such  other  officers  as  may  bo™, 
required,  to  be  chosen  annually  by  the  Court  of  Commoi]^| 
Council,  all  of  which  shall  hold  their  office  for  one  year,  and 
until  a  successor  shall  be  appointed  and  qualified.  If  any 
vacancy  ^shall    occur  in   any   of   the    offices   so  filled   said 


] 


COUNCIL    OFFICERS  —  CLERKS.  207 

vacancy  may  be  filled  at  a  meeting  of  the  Court  of  Common  Jj^^^^o'^^,  how 

Council  specially  warned  for  that  purpose,  and  the  person 

chosen  to  fill  a  vacancy  in  any  office  under  the  charter  or 

ordinances  of  the  city  shall,  when  qualified  according  to  law, 

be  vested   with   all   the   powers   and    functions   pertaining  — 

thereto,  for  the  full  unexpired  portion  of  the  term  in  which  tlSrifansaVv. 

the  vacancy  shall   have  occurred,  and  shall   be  entitled  to 

such  part  of  the  salary  and  emoluments  of  his  office  as  shall 

be  justly  proportioned  to  the  time  for  which  he  shall  hold 

the  same. 

Sec  3.     There  shall  be  chosen,  annually,  at  the  first  sepa-  officers  of  common 

'  tj  '  X  council  board,  wlien 

rate  meeting  of  the  common  council  board  after  the  annual  *''""^°' 
city  meeting,  a  president,  vice-president,  clerk,  and  messen- 
ger, who  shall  hold  office  until  their  successors  are  chosen 
and  qualified.  The  president  and  vicc'-president  shall  be 
members  of  said  board.  The  presiding  officer  of  said  board  ^^^y«'^^^['8»'||«^'; 
shall  not  vote  in  any  meeting  except  when  the  action  of  said 
board  shall  result  in  a  tie,  or  when  by  voting  in  the  negative 
his  vote  shall  make  a  tie,  in  which  latter  case  such  question 
shall  be  lost. 

Sec  4.     The  clerk  of  each  board  shall  attend  the  meetings  p»«f «/  cjfrks  of 

O      board  of  aldermen 

thereof,  and  duly  record  the  orders  and  proceedings  thereof,  coimdi!"""" 
and  deliver  true  and  attested  copies  of  his  records  as  often  as 
required.  The  clerk  of  each  board  shall  note  on  every  vote, 
resolution,  or  ordinance  of  such  board,  a  brief  statement  of 
the  action  of  such  board  thereon;  and  whenever  such  pro- 
ceedings are  had  thereon  as  make  the  action  of.  the  other 
board  proper,  he  shall  cause  the  same  to  be  transmitted  as 
soon  as  may  be  to  said  other  board ;  and  whenever  the  board, 
of  which  he  is  clerk,  shall  have  concurred  with  the  other 
branch  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council  in  passing  any  vote, 
ordinance,  or  resolution,  he  shall  cause  the  same  to  be  trans- 
mitted as  soon  as  may  be  to  the  mayor  for  his  approval. 

Sec  5.     The  clerks  of  each  branch  of  the  Court  of  Com- joumais  of  tbe 

Court  of  Common 

mon  Council  of  said  city,  shall  keep  a  journal  of  the  doings  ^*'"''*'"- 
and  proceedings  thereof,  and  after  each  meeting  shall  cause 
the  same  to  be  printed  in  sufficient  numbers,  and  distributed 
to  each  member  of  said  Court  of  Common  Council,  and  to 


208  CITY    CLERK CITY    WEIGHERS. 

such  other  officers  of  said  city  as  they  judge  best,  and  within 
four  weeks  after  the  last  meeting  of  said  Court  of  Common 
Council  for  the  year,  they  shall  cause  two  hundred  copies  of 
such  journal,  properly-  indexed,  to  be  printed  and  distributed, 
one  to  each  member  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council  for  the 
3^ear  during  which  said  journal  was  kept,  and  one  "to  each 
officer  of  said  City  of  Hartford,  and  shall  deposit  the  remain- 
der in  the  office  of  the  city  "blerk  of  said  city,  one  of  which 
said  clerk  shall  certify  under  his  hand,  to  be  a  true  record  of 
the  doings  and  proceedings  of  said  Court  of  Common  Coun- 
cil, and  which  shall  be  the  official  journal  thereof 
City  clerk  the  Sec.  6.     Thc  citv  clcrk  shall  be  the  stated  custodian  of  all 

custodian  of  «^ 

records,  etc.  votes,  rcsolutioiis  and  ordinances  which  shall  have  been  made 
or  passed  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  and  shall  keep 
all  bills,  claims,  and  vouchers,  which  shall  have  been  allowed 
by  said  court,  until  the  same  shall  have  been  delivered  to  the 
auditor;  and  shall  take  prompt  possession  of  all  documents 
and  vouchers,  as  soon  as  the  same  shall  have  been  finally 
acted  upon  by  said  court,  and  shall  immediately  make  an 
orderly  arrangement  of  all  city  papers,  which  are  to  be  kept 
on  file  in  his  office.  He  shall  keep  an  office  at  such  place  as 
he  may  select,  with  the  approval  of  the  mayor  and  auditing 
committee,  or  at  such  place  as  the  Court  of  Common  Council 
shall  provide.  He  may  employ  a  messenger  at  a  salary  not 
exceeding  sixty  dollars  a  year. 

City  weighers,  how       Sec.  7.     Said  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  appoint  city 

appointed.  -•-  ^  "^ 

weighers,  each  one  of  whom  shall  give  bond  with  surety  in 
the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars,  payable  to  the  city,  and  all 
anthracite  or  bituminous  coal  brought  to  and  sold  in  this  city 
shall  be  weighed  by  one  of  said  weighers,  who  shall  give  a 
certificate  of  the  weight  of  the  same,  signed  by  him,  which 
shall  be  delivered  to  the  purchaser  at  the  time  of  sale. 
Short  weight,  how       Whencvcr  any  coal  shall  fall  short  of  the  weie-ht  specified 

made  good.  ^  ^  ^ 

in  the  certificate,  such  deficiency  shall   be  paid  for  by  the 
weigher  who  gave  the  same,  to  the  purchaser  on  demand, 
Penalty  for.  aud  sald  weighcr  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the   treasurer  of 

the  City  of  Hartford  for  the  use  of  the  city,  for  each  and 
every   offence,    the    sum    of  ten    dollai-s.     The   foes    of  said 


INSPECTOR   OF   FIRE   WOOD.  209 

\veigher  shall  be  six  cents  for  each  load  of  coal  weighed  by  Fees  of  weigher. 
him  to  be  paid  by  the  seller. 

Every  person  who  shall  sell  any  anthracite  or  bituminous  penalty  for  semng 

J    r  'J  coal  unweigned,  etc. 

coal  without  having  the  same  weighed  as  aforesaid,  or  shall    • 

sell  the  same  without  delivering  a  certificate  of  the  weight 

thereof  as  aforesaid  to  the  purchaser  at  the  time  of  such  sale, 
shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  to  said  city  not  exceeding  ten 
dollars,  for  each  oifence.  ^ 

Sec.  8.     An  inspector  of  fire  wood  shall  be  appointed  an-  ^"^''^pf''];^';^"^  "'"*' 
nually  by  said  court,  who  shall  give  a  bond  with  surety  in  the  ''p*'"'"'''^" 
sum  of  five  hundred  dollars,  payable  to  the  city.     All  fire 
wood  brought  to  and  sold  in  this  city  shall  be  measured  by  Fire  wood,  how 

o  ./  ./    measured. 

the  inspector  or  deputy  inspector  by  him  appointed,  who  shall 
give  a  certificate  of  the  measure  of  the  same  in  square  or 
solid  feet,  signed  by  him,  w^hich  shall  be  delivered  to  the  pur- 
chaser at  the  time  of  sale.  There  shall  also  be  provided  by 
the  city  and  kept  under  his  superintendance,  as  many  sealed  fj^^J^^^'j'^-'^''*"  *■«"■ 
baskets  as  he  shall  think  necessary  for  the  measuring  of  char- 
coal, each  of  which,  even  full,  shall  hold  three  bushels. 

Sec.  9.  Whenever  any  fire  wood  shall  fall  short  of  tbe  sho^r^t^asurchow 
measure  specified  in  the  certificate,  such  deficiency  shall  be 
paid  for  by  the  principal  inspector  to  the  purchaser  on  de- 
mand ;  and  after  such  demand  the  same  may  be  recovered  in 
any  proper  action,  or  by  a  suit  upon  his  bond.  The  fees  of 
the  insjDector  shall  be  twelve  cents  for  each  load  of  wood  Fees  or  inspector. 
lirought  by  land;  six  cents  for  each  cord  brought  by  boat, 
one-half  of  which  shall  be  paid  by  the  purchaser,  and  the 
other  half  by  the  seller. 

Sec.  10.  Every  person  who  shall  sell  or  purchase  any  fire  ^^°j;''°;'^f//^X'' 
wood  without  having  the  same  measured  as  aforesaid,  or  shall  "*''^  p»°'^>""i- 
sell  any  fire  wood  without  delivering  a  certificate  of  the 
measurement  thereof  to  the  purchaser  at  the  time  of  such 
sale,  or  shall  sell  any  charcoal  except  the  same  shall  have 
been  measured  in  the  baskets  furnished  by  the  city,  or  who 
shall  pack  any  wood,  measured  or  sold  in  this  city,  so  as  to 
decrease  in  the  measurement  of  the  same,  shall  forfeit  and 
]^ay  a  fine  not  exceediug  twenty  dollars. 


210 


INSPECTOR   OF   FIRE   WOOD. 


Pressed  hay,  how 
weighed. 


Deputy  inspectors, 
how  appointed, 
powers  and 
duties  of. 


Short  weight,  how 
made  good. 


Fees  of  inspector. 


Inspector  to  pre- 
scribe weight  of 
material  used  in 
binding  hay. 


Non-compliance 
with  ordinance, 
penalty  for. 


Sec.  11.  All  pressed  hay,  brought  to  and  sold  in  this  city, 
shall  be  weighed  by  the  inspector  of  fire  wood,  or  his  deputy, 
who  shall  give  a  certificate  of  the  weight  of  the  same,  signed 
by  him,  which  shall  be  delivered  to  the  purchaser  of  such  hay 
at  the  time  of  sale. 

Sec.  12.  The  inspector  of  fire  wood  may  appoint  any 
number  of  deputies  not  exceeding  twelve,  who  shall  each 
qualify  in  the  same  manner,  and  have  the  same  powers,  for 
the  weighing  of  coal,  or  hay,  and  measuring  of  wood,  and 
certifying  thereto  as  the  inspector  has,  and  be  liable  therefor 
in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent,  and  the  appoint- 
ment of  every  such  deputy  shall  be  in  writing,  specifying  the 
term  of  his  appointment,  a  copy  of  which  shall  be  lodged  on 
file  in  the  city  clerk's  office.  Whenever  any  pressed  hay 
shall  fall  short  of  the  weight  specified  in  the  certificate  of  the 
weight  of  the  same,  such  deficiency  shall  be  paid  for  to  the 
purchaser  by  the  inspector  who  gives  the  certificate,  on 
demand,  and  after  such  demand,  the  value  of  said  deficiency, 
if  not  paid,  may  be  recovered  by  such  purchaser  of  said 
inspector  in  any  proper  action,  or  by  suit  upon  his  official 
bond.  The  fees  of  the  insj)ector  shall  be  six  cents  for  each 
bale  of  hay  weighed  by  him,  to  be  paid  by  the  seller. 

Sec.  13.  The  inspector  of  fire  wood  shall  establish  and 
announce  a  rule  fixing  the  weight  w^hich  may  be  allowed  to 
the  materials  used  in  binding  up  pressed  hay,  and  the  weight 
of  said  materials  so  fixed  by  him  shall  be  deducted  from  the 
gross  weight  of  all  pressed  hay.  Every  person  who  shall 
sell  any  pressed  hay  which  is  bound  up  Avith  materials  whose 
weight  shall  exceed  the  Aveight  allowed  by  the  rule  estab- 
lished by  the  inspector  of  fire  wood,  or  who  shall  sell  any 
pressed  hay  containing  any  substance  other  than  hay,  excej)t 
said  materials,  or  who  shall  sell  any  pressed  hay  without 
having  the  same  weighed  as  aforesaid,  or  Avho  shall  sell  any 
pressed  hay  without  delivering  a  certificate  of  the  weight 
thereof  to  the  purchaser  at  the  time  of  such  sale,  shall  for- 
feit and  pay  a  fine  of  not  exceeding  five  dollars  for  each  and 
everj^  oficnce,  and  the  sale  of  each  bale  of  pressed  hay  sold 


SEALER   OF   WEIGHTS   AND    MEASURES.  211 

contnuy  to  or  in  violation  of  any  one  of  the  foregoing  pro- 
visions, shall  constitute  a  separate  offence. 

Sec.  14.     There  shall  be  provided,  at  the  expense  of  the  coaMubs^o  be  kept 
city,  and  kept  by  the  inspector  of  fire  wood  and  under  his 
superintendance,  a  sufficient  number  of  tubs,  each  of  which  -   _ 

shall  contain  three  bushels,  when  even  full,  of  coal  measure, 
and  all  the  anthracite  or  bituminous  coal  brought  into  this 
city  and  sold  shall,  if  required,  be  measured  in  said  tubs 
under  the  inspection  of  the  said  inspector  or  one  of  his 
deputies.  Any  person  who  shall  sell  any  anthracite  or  Penauy  forj^ioiatiou 
bituminous  coal  brought  into  this  city  as  aforesaid  contrary 
to  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a 
fine  of  not  less  than  one  nor  more  than  five  dollars  for  each 
and  every  offence. 

Sec.  15.  Said  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  appoint  f^f^^°/j;^^f^'^^ 
annually  a  sealer  of  weights  and  measures,  who  shall  devote  andSes.^*"^^" 
his  whole  time  to  the  duties  of  said  office,  and  whose  duty 
it  shall  be  to  annually  inspect,  prove,  correct  and  seal  all 
measures,  balances,  scales,  steelyards,  weights,  or  any  instru- 
ment, machine  or  article  used  for  weighing  or  measuring,  by 
any  person,  in  doing  business  within  said  city,  according  to 
the  standards  of  the  City  of  Hartford. 

All  such  measures,  balances,  scales,  steelyards,  weights, 
instruments,  machines  or  articles  as  are  formed  or  made  to 
correspond  in  degree  with  said  standard  shall  be  marked  or 
sealed  with  the  letters  IT.  S.  In.  addition  to  such  annual 
inspection,  said  sealer  of  weights  and  measures  shall,  from 
time  to  time,  as  he  shall  deem  necessary,  visit  all  places 
Avhere  measures,  balances,  scales,  steelyards  or  weights  are 
used  for  weighing  or  measuring'  by  any  person,  in  doing 
business  in  said  city,  and  inspect  such  measures,  bala»ces, 
scales,  steelyards  or  weights,  as  have  not  been  inspected 
within  one  year,  and  if  found  correct  shall  mark  or  seal  the 
same,  and  shall  when  requested  by  any  person  try  and  test 
by  said  standards  the  measures,  balances,  scales,  steelyards, 
weights  or  other  instruments,  machines  or  articles  for  meas- 
uring or  weighing  used  by  any  ])erson  in  doing  business  in 
this  city. 


212 


SEALER   OF   WEIGHTS   AND    MEASURES. 


Use  of  unsealed 
\t-eights,  etc., 
prohibited. 


Peualty. 


Feus  lor  iuspectiou. 


Additiouai  coiupen- 
sation. 


Use  of  defective 
weights  iind  meas- 
ures prohibited. 


Penalty. 


Defective  measures 
to  be  branded. 


Sec.  16.  Any  person  who  shall  within  the  limits  of  said 
city  use  any  weight,  scale  or  measure,  to  ascertain  the 
weight,  length  or  quantity  of  any  article  by  him  sold,  which 
weight,  scale  or  measure  has  not  been  marked  or  sealed  by 
said  sealer  of  weights  and  measures  in  the  manner  provided 
in  the  foregoing  section;  or  who  shall  knowingly  and  Avith 
intent  to  defraud,  sell  any  article  as  of  a  greater  Aveight, 
measure  or  quantity  than  such  article  does  in  fact  Aveigh  or 
measure  according  to  said  standards  shall  pay  to  the  City  of 
Hartford  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  tAvo  nor  more  than 
twenty  dollars. 

Sec.  17.  The  owner  of  the  several  measures,  balances, 
scales,  steelyards,  and  Aveights,  shall  pay  said  sealer  of 
Av eights  and  measures  for  each  inspection  made  by  him,  as 
required  by  the  ordinances  of  the  city,  as  follows :  For 
testing  each  Aveight,  measure,  box,  or  basket,  three  cents ;  for 
each  scale,  steelyard,  or  balance,  excepting  platform  balances, 
ten  cents;  for  each  platform  balance  made  for  Aveighing  less 
than  five  thousand  pounds,  fifty  cents ;  and  for  each  platform 
balance  made  for  Aveighing  five  thousand  pounds  or  over,  one 
dollar. 

In  addition  to  the  foregoing  fees,  the  owner  shall  also  pa}' 
said  sealer  of  Aveights  and  measures  a  reasonable  compensa- 
tion for  all  repairs,  alterations,  and  adjustments,  Avhich  it  is 
necessary  for  him  to  make. 

Sec.  18.  Whenever  the  sealer  of  Aveights  and  measures, 
upon  inspection  of  any  balance,  scale,  steelyard,  or  weight, 
shall  find  that  it  is  incorrect,  and  cannot  be  adjusted  by  him, 
he  shall  forbid  its  further  use  until  it  is  made  to  conform  to 
the  authorized  standard,  and  shall  fix  thereon  a  written  or 
priiited  notice,  stating  the  facts  so  found  by  him  and  forbid- 
ding its  use,  and  any  j^erson  Avho  shall  remove  such  notice, 
Avithout  the  consent  of  said  sealer  of  Aveights  and  measures, 
shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  City  of  Hartford  a  penalty  of 
tAventy-fiA^e  dollars.  Whenever  said  sealer  of  Aveights  and 
measures,  upon  inspection,  shall  find  any  measure  or  A^essel, 
used  for  measuring  any  goods  sold  in  said  city,  to  be  beloAv 
the  standard  of  correct  measurement,  he  shall,  Avith  a  brand, 


enter 
and  may 
inspect  weights  and 

of 
itinerant  vender. 


SEALER   OP   WEIGHTS    AND    MEASURES.  218 

(lie,  or  other  proper  instrument,  atfix  or  impress  to  or  upon 
it,  the  word  "condemned." 

Every  person  who  shall  use   any  measure  or  vessel  <-*on- Pt-imny  j^^^ 
<lemned  and  branded,  or  stamped,  as  aforesaid,  or  who  gh.^]!  "»«**"'■''''■  •^^'^• 

use  any  balance,  scale,  steelyard,  or  weight,  the  use  of  which         ^ 

has  been  forbidden  as  aforesaid,  for  the  purpose  of  ascertain- 
ing the  w^eight  or  quantity  of  any  goods  by  him  sold,  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  to  the  City  of  Hartford  a  penalty  of  not  less 
than  twenty-five  and  not  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

Everv  person  who  shall  hinder  or  obstruct  said  sealer  of  p«n»ity;"'-    . 

J     1  obstructing  sealer 

weights  and  measures,  in  the  discharge  of  his  duty,  shall  for-  o°  mI dutl™"'''' 
feit  and  pay  to   the   City  of  Hartford,  for  each   otfence,  a 
penalty  of  ten  dollars. 

Sec.  19.     It  shall  be.the  duty  of  the  sealer  of  weights  and  Slngtn 
measures,  and  it  shall  be  lawful  for  him,  to  enter  any  store,  measures 

'  '  *i  '  Itinerant 

house,  or  other  building,  or  any  yard,  in  said  city,  where 
weights  or  measures  are  used  by  any  person,  in  doing  busi- 
ness, at  any  reasonable  hour,  to  inspect  any  measures,  bal- 
ances, scales,  steelyards,  or  weights  contained  therein ;  and  it 
shall  be  lawful  for  him  to  inspect  any  measures,  balances, 
scales,  steelyards,  or  weights  of  any  itinerant  vender  of  fruits, 
fvegetables,  or  other  articles  of  merchandise  in  said  city. 

Sec.  20.  Said  sealer  of  weights  and  measures  shall  inquire  inspection  of  miik. 
into  and  investigate  the  quality  of  milk  which  may  be  sold 
or  kept,  offered  or  exposed  for  sale  within  said  city,  and  shall 
make  such  examinations  and  inspections  thereof  as  may  be 
necessary  to  ascertain  whether  adulterated  or  impure  milk  is 
sold  or  kept,  offered  or  exposed  for  sale  within  said  city,  con- 
trary to  statutes  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  and  shall  report 
all  violations  of  said  statutes  relating  to  the  sale  and  adulter- 
ation of  milk  to  the  city  prosecuting  attoi'nej^  for  prosecution 
forthwith. 

Sec.  21.     Said  sealer  of  weights  and  measures  shall,  for  the  Powers  under 

_  '  '  preceding  section. 

purposes  of  the  foregoing  section,  have  the  power  to  enter 
any  store,  house,  building,  or  yard,  and  upon  any  premises 
within  said  city  where  milk  is  sold  or  kept,  offered  or  exposed 
for  sale,  or  where  it  is  believed  to  be  sold  or  kept,  offered  or 
exposed  for^ale,  at  any  reasonable  time,  to  make  an  examin- 


214 


PORT    WARDEN. 


Police  to  assist 
sealer  and  report 
violations  of  the 
ordinance. 


Violations  to  be 
reported  to  prose- 
cuting attorney. 


Port  warden,  how 
and  when 
appointed. 


Duties  of  port 
warden. 


Port  warden  shall 
direct  location  of 
vessels. 


ation  and  inspection  as  provided  in  the  preceding  section,  and 
it  shall  be  lawful  for  him,  for  the  purposes  of  inspection  and 
examination,  to  stop  and  detain  any  team,  wagon  or  vehicle 
within  said  city  which  is  used  in  the  sale  of  milk,  or  for  the 
-'transportation  of  milk  which  is  to  be  sold  or  kept,  offered  or 
exposed  for  sale,  or  to  be  delivered  on  sale,  and  to  stop  and 
detain  any  person  carrying  milk  which  is  to  be  sold  or  kept, 
offered  or  exposed  for  sale,  or  to  be  delivered  on  sale. 

Seg.  22.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  policeman  to  assist 
the  sealer  of  weights  and  measures  when  required,  and  to 
report  to  him  any  violation  of  the  ordinances  relating  to  the 
inspection  of  measures,  balances,  scales,  steelyards,  or 
weights,  or  of  the  statutes  of  the  state  relative  to  the  inspec- 
tion of  milk,  within  his  knowledge;  and  the  sealer  of 
weights  and  measures  shall  report  the  same  to  the  prose- 
cuting attorney  of  the  city  for  prosecution  forthwith. 

Sec.  23.  The  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  annually 
appoint  a  suitable  person  to  be  warden  of  the  port,  whose 
duty  it  shall  be  to  take  the  charge  and  superintendence  of 
the  public  landings;  to  direct  the  persons  having  the  care  or 
charge  of  any  vessel,  raft,  boat,  or  other  w^ater-craft,  where 
they  may  place  or  move,  lade  and  unlade  the  same,  and  when 
to  remove  such  boats,  or  other  water-craft  from  such  landing 
place  or  places;  to  see  that  said  landing  places  are  not 
unnecessarily  obstructed,  and  to  do  all  such  matters  and 
things  relative  to  said  public  landings  as  will  best  secure  the 
public  in  the  full  enjoyment  of  the  same. 

Sec.  24.  Under  the  direction  of  the  warden  of  the  port, 
any  steamboat,  vessel,  boat,  raft,  or  other  water-craft,  may 
be  moored  at  or  opposite  any  of  the  public  landing  places  of 
said  city,  and  the  same  shall  be  chargeable  Avith  dockage  or 
wharfage  at  the  following  rates,  that  is  to  say;  all  steam- 
boats which  are  constructed  for  the  navigation  of  Long 
Island  Sound,  which  may  be  moored  at  or  opposite  either  of 
the  public  landing  places  as  aforesaid,  so  as  to  occupy  or  lie 
at.  or  opposite  said  landings,  or  any  part  thereof,  shall  be 
chargeable  and  pay  at  the  rate  of  fifty  cents  per  day;  and  all 
other  steamboats,  in  like  manner,  shall  pay  at   the  rate  of 


PORT   WARDEN.  215 

weiity-five  cents  per  day:  and  all  sailing  vessels  of  suitable  what  wharfage 

»/  X  «/    '  o  dues  vessels  shall 

onstriiction  for  navigating  Long  Island  sound,  or  boats  of  ^*-' 
any  kind  for  the  sale  of  fish,  which  may  be  moored  as  afore- 
said, shall  be  chargeable  and  pay  at  the  rate  of  one  cent  per 
ton  per  day  for  the  first  inside  or  shore  berth,  two-thirds  of  -  ~ — 

one  cent  per  ton  per  day  for  the  second  berth,  and  one-third 
of  one  cent  per  ton  per  day  for  any  berths  outside  of  the 
second  berth,  and  no  such  vessel  of  whatever  tonnage,  shall 
pay  less  than  twelve  and  a  half  cents  per  day,  for  any  inside 
or  shore  berth.     And  the  port  warden  of  said  city  is  hereby  Port  warden  shaii 

-!■  ^  J     collect  wharfage 

empowered  and  directed  to  collect  and  pay  over  to  the  city  fr" aswer"."""  ^ ''"^' 
treasurer,  the   rates  of  dockage  and  wharfage   accruing  as 
aforesaid,  deducting  therefrom  twenty-five  per  centum  for  his 
fees  for  collecting  the  same,  and  taking  the  charge  and  regu-  warden^"^' 
lation  of  said  vessels  and  public  landings. 

Sec.  25.  That  no  person  or  persons  shall  unlade,  dis-  ^tcrfSnnectS 
charge,  or  place  at,  in  or  opposite  any  of  the  public  landing  "'^^''  p'"'"''"'*''*- 
places  in  said  city,  or  within  one  hundred  feet  of  low  water 
mark,  in  Connecticut  river,  opposite  said  city,  any  ballast, 
rubbish,  clam  or  oyster  shells,  or  any  other  substance  which 
may  tend  to  obstruct  or  fill  up  landing  places,  or  the  channel 
of  said  river;  or  leave  or  place  any  putrid  fish,  clams,  or 
oysters,  or  the  oifals  or  dressings  of  fish,  or  any  animal  or 
vegetable  substance  likely  and  liable  to  putrify,  in  or  upon 
any  wharf,  shore,  creek,  land,  or  street  of  said  city,  or  in  the 
Avaters  of  said  city,  if  within  one  hundred  feet  of  the  shores 
thereof,  under  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  one  dollar  nor  more  penalty  for  vioia- 

'  ^  -^  tionof. 

than  ten. dollars  for  each  and  every  offence.     And  it  shall  be 

the  duty  of  the  i)ort  warden  to  report  to  the  city  attorney,  Port  warden  shaii 

•^  ^  ^  ./  vf  ;  ygj^jt  violations  of 

for  prosecution,  all  breaches  of  this  ordinance  that  shall  come  auo?neT'  ^  "'^ 
to  his  knowledge. 

Sec.  26.     If  any  vessel,  boat,  raft,  or  water-craft  of  any  Noncompliance 

^  '  ^  ^  t/     ^yitj,  orders  of  port 

description,  or  any  stone,  plaster  of  Paris,  lumber,  wood,  punfc'!"'' 
timber,  or  goods  of  any  kind,  shall  be,  or  lie  at  any  of  the 
public  landing  places  aforesaid,  either  afloat  or  on  the  shore, 
contrary  to  the  orders  of  the  port  warden  of  said  city,  the 
person  having  the  care  or  charge  of  said  vessel,  raft,  boat,  or 
waloi'-craft,  or  any  articles  al)()ve  s])ecified,  shall  forfeit  and 


216  CITY   JURORS. 

pay  to  the  treasurer  of  said  city,  for  the  use  of  said  city,  the 
sum  of  fifty  cents  per  hour  for  every  hour  such  vessel,  raft, 
boat,  or  other  water-craft,  or  any  other  article  above  specified, 
shall  continue  to  lie  in  or  upon  the  said  landing  places,  after 
notice  of  such  order,  and  for  any  penalty  incurred  under  this 
Master  and  owner  of  f^ieeti on,  thc  uiastcr  or  owner  of  the  vessel,  raft,  boat,  or  any 

vessfil  hable  for  "  ^  T  ■>  j 

penalty.  othcr  w^atcr-craft,  shall  be  responsible  in  the  same  manner  as 

the  person  who  shall  have  the  charge  or  custody  of  the  same : 
provided  however^  that  nothing  in  this  ordinance  shall  in  an^^ 
way  impair  or  aifect  the  rights  of  the  public  or  individuals  to 
the  free  use  of  the  ferry  place  for  the  purpose  of  a  feny. 

Sec.  27.  The  board  of  aldermen  shall  be  warned  by  the 
mayor,  in  the  manner  provided  by  law  for  warning  meetings 
of  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  to  meet  on  the  fourth 

City  jurors,  how      Moudav  of  April,  in  each  year,  for  the  choice  of  jurors  of  the 

appointed,  */  x         ;  ./  7  «; 

City  Court;  and  said  board  shall,  at  such  meeting,  select  not 
less  than  seventy  nor  more  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  free- 
Number  of  jurors  to  holders   of  said  city  to   serve   as  such   iurors,  for  the  year 

be  appointed.  •/  0  j  t/ 

ensuing,  whose  names  shallbe  immediately  returned  by  the 
clerk  of  the  board  to  the  clerk  of  the  City  Court,  w^ho  shall 
write  each  of  said  names  upon  a  separate  piece  of  paper, 
which,  after  being  rolled  up,  shall  be  placed  in  a  suitable  box ; 
Jury  warrant,  how  wheucver  a  iurv  warrant  shall  be  issued  by  the  clerk  of  said 

issued.  o        ,/  d  _ 

court  to  the  city  marshal,  or  his  deputy,  the  ofiicer  serving 
the  same  shall,  in  the  j)resence  of  the  clerk  and  the  recorder 

Jurors,  how  drawn,  of  Said  court  draw  from  said  box  such  number  of  names  as 
his  warrant  requires,  and  no  more,  without  knowing  in  any 
manner  any  name  so  drawn,  before  drawing  the  same ;  and 
shall  then  summon  the  persons  whose  names  shall  have  been 
thus  draAvn,  according  to  the  mandate  of  such  warrant.     If, 

S"Cr^.Mn!iied  ^*^^  ^^^y  I'eason,  more  jurors  shall  be  required  to  complete  the 
panel,   the    oflEicer    attending    the    court    shall    supply   th 
deficiency,  b}"  drawing  the  names  of  other  persons  from  said 
box,  in  the  manner  aforesaid,  and  summoning  them  to  attend 

Names  of  jurors      aud  scrvc.     The  names  of  such  iurors  as  do  not  attend,  or 

exeiisert,  how  kept.  "  ' 

are  excused  for  the  whole  term  from  serving,  shall  be  imme- 
diately returned  to  said  box,  and  the  names  of  such  as  do 
attend  and  serve  shall  be  placed  by  the  clerk  in  another  box 


I 


FINANCE. 


217 


serve,  how 
punished. 


or  receptacle,  to  be  drawn  after  those  remaining  in  the  first 
mentioned  box  shall  have  been  exhausted.     Any  juror  who  Refusal  of  juror  to 

•'     ff  serve,  how 

shall  have  been  duly  summoned,  who  shall  refuse  to  attend  or 
serve,  shall  pay  a  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  the  use  of  the 
city,  recoverable  upon  this  ordinance. 

Taxable  fees  in  the  City  Court,  and  of  the  clerk  of  the  ^axawe  fees  of  cuy 
City  Court,  shall  be  the  same  as  are  provided  in  the  general 
statutes. 


CHAPTEE  III. 


FINANCE  AND  CONVEYANCES. 


Committee  of  ways  and  means  to  examine 

accounts  of  treasurer  and  condition  of 

the  sinking  fund. 
Committee  on  ways  and  means  to  examine 

accounts  of  collector. 
Conveyance  of  real  estate,  how  made. 
Conveyance  of  personal  property,  and 

evidences  of  debt,  how  executed. 


Money,  how  drawn  from  city  treasury. 
Orders  of  city  auditor,  how  drawn. 
Auditor  2)i'o  tempore,  how  appointed. 
Auditing  committee,  how  appointed,  and 

duties. 
Money  due  the  city,  how  paid. 
Duties  of  treasurer. 

Duties  of  clerks  of  City  and  Police  Courts. 
City  attorney,  duties  of 
May  employ  additional  counsel  and  shall 

keep  register  of  legal  proceedings. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford: 

Section  1.     No  money,  except  for  the  payment  of  notes  of  payments  from  city 

^  X      ./  treasury,  how  made. 

the  city  payable  at  bank,  or  of  interest  on  city  notes,  scrip, 

or  certificates  of  debt,  shall  be  paid  from  the  city  treasury, 

except  upon  the  written  order  of  the  auditor  of  city  accounts, 

specifying  the  nature  of  the  claim  for  which  such  order  is 

drawn;  and  any  payment  made  without  such  order,  except 

in  the  above-excepted  cases,  shall  be  without  authority  and 

not  obligatory  upon  the  city.     No  order  shall  be  drawn  by  ,^|;'^en  valid"'"""'* 

such   auditor,  or   be  valid,  without  a   previous  vote  of  the 

Court  of  Common  Council  authorizii^  the  same,  and  the  only 

evidence  of  such  authority  shall  be  a  certified  copy  of  such 

order,  which  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  clerk  to  deliver 


218  AUDITOR   AND   AUDITING   COMMITTEE. 

as  soon  as  jnay  be  to  said  auditor.     In  case  of  the  temporary 

illness,  absence,  or  disability  of  the  auditor,  the  Court  of 
Kpoim^rt'Twb'en!  Common  Council  may  appoint  a  deputy  auditor  for  the  time 

being,  whose  acts,  in  conformity  with  the  votes  of  said  court. 

shall  be  valid  and  obligatory.  The  auditor  shall  render  his 
Auditor  shall  render  accouut  to  thc  Court  of  Couimou  Couucil  at  least  two  weeks 

account,  when,  and 

*"'"^'  before  the  annual  election  of  city  officers,  and  shall  keep  the 

same  in  such  a  mode  of  classification  as  to  show  the  receipts 
and  expenses  of  each  department  of  the  city  government  and 
business,  including  the  receipts  and  expenses  of  each  of  the 
courts  of  said  city,  and  the  various  sources  and  objects  of  the 
expenditure  made  on  account  of  said  courts. 

Shall  preserve  Hc  shall  rcccivc  froiu  the  city  clerk,  and  file  and  safely 

claims,  vouchers,  '  * 

^*^-  kee])   in   his  office  all   bills,  claims,  accounts,  and   vouchers 

allowed  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  and  the  certified 
copies  of  all  resolutions  appropriating  money.     He  shall  be 

Auditor ex-o^io    ex-oMcio  chaii'mau  of  an   auditino;   committee,  consistino-  of 

chairman  auditing  **  o  '  ^ 

committee.  ^^^^  membcrs  besides   such   auditor,  one  of  whom   shall  be 

Auditing  committee,  aiipoiutcd  by  thc  board  of  aldermen  from  their  own  numl)er. 

how  composed.  * 

and  one  by  the  common  council  board  from  their  own  number, 
to  hold  office  during  the  pleasure  of  the  board  appointing 
them;  to  which  committee  every  bill,  account,  or  claim 
against  the  city  shall  be  referred  by  the  Court  of  Common 
Council,  for  their  approval  or  disapproval,  before  the  same 
shall  be  approved  by  said  court,  unless  both  branches  of  said 
court  concur  in  dispensing  Avith  such  reference.  And  it  shall 
Duties  or  auditing    bc  thc  duty  of  such  auditing  committee  faithfully  to  examine 

committee.  n  i 

all  accounts,  bills  or  claims  so  referred  to  them,  and  all 
monthly  accounts  of  water  rents  received  and  expended  by 
the  water  commissioners,  and  faithfully  to  report  any  infor 
mality  or  improper  charge,  by  them  detected,  to  the  Court  o 
Common  Council;  and  also  to  note  their  approval  of  any 
such  account  upon  the  same.  And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Buty  of  auditor,  audltor  to  provldc  himself  with  such  lists  of  officers  or  stated 
employees  of  the  city,  in  the  various  dejiartments  of  its 
business,  as  will  enable  him  to  examine  thoroughly  all  claims, 
accounts,  or  exhibits  presented  to  the  Court  of  Common 
Council  on  their  behalf. 


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CLERKS   OF   CITY   AND   POLICE   COURT.  219 

Sec.  2.     All  moneys  accruing  to  the  use  or  benefit  of  the  ?^°°X'^!;°Jp*^*^ 
city  shall  be  paid  into  the  city  treasury,  and  duplicate  receipts  *''^*'"'-^- 
or  certificates  shall  be  made  by  the  treasurer  for  all  moneys 
by  him  received   as  such,  one  of  which  he  shall  forthwith 

deliver  to  the  auditor  of  city  accounts,  and  the  other,  if  re-       ^ ^ 

quired,  to  the  party  from  which  such  money  is  received.     He 
shall  keep  a  faithful  and  true  account  of  all  his  receipts  and  JJcaSrer."''^ 
disbursements  in  such  a  mode  of  classification  as  to  corre- 
spond to  the  classification  reqviired  in  the  foregoing  section 
from  the  auditor,  and  shall  render  his  account  to  the  Court  of 
Common  Council  at  least  two  weeks  before  the  annual  city 
mooting.     The  treasurer  shall  apply  any  avails  of  the  water  ^/^Sd.''"'" 
rents  by  him  received  to  the  payment  of  interest  on  the 
water  debt  or  scrip,  without  special  order  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Council ;  and  if  there  be  any  excess  of  such  avails 
ho  shall  so  report  to  the  said  court,  who  shall  thereupon  ?i,^,';Xd''to'common 
direct  whether  the  same  shall  be  applied  to  the  extinguish- """""'' '^'*^"* 
ment  of  the  princii)al  of  the  water  debt  or  otherwise. 

Sec.  3.     The   clerks   of  the   City  Court  and   City  Police  contiugeutex- 

./  »'  penses  of  City  and 

Court  shall  supervise  and  defray  all  contingent  expenditures  defied"'''  ^"^ 
in  behalf  of  their  respective  courts,  and  shall  be  entitled  to 
be  reimbursed  for  the  same,  after  being  allowed  and  certified 
by  the  judge  of  such  court,  out  of  the  fees,  fines,  penalties, 
costs,  or  moneys  accruing  to  the  city  treasury  from  said 
courts.  And  all  such  fees,  fines,  penalties,  costs,  or  moneys 
shall  be  paid  to  the  clerk  of  the  court,  on  account  of  which 
they  shall  accrue.  The  clerk  of  tho  City  Police  Court  shall  fo^TecelS^^c^^^^^^ 
pay  over  quarterly  to  the  city  treasurer  all  such  fines,  fees,  *" ' 
costs,  penalties  or  moneys  as  shall  be  in  his  hands,  and  shall 
.annually  on  the  first  day  of  July  account  with  the  city 
auditor  for  all  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  said  City 
Police  Court  for  the  preceding  year.  The  clerk  of  the  City 
Court  shall  account  for  all  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of 
his  court  with  the  auditor  of  city  accounts  at  least  three 
weeks  before  the  annual  city  meeting,  and  immediately 
thereafter  shall  pay  over  all  the  receipts  in  his  hands  to  the 
city  treasurer,  who  shall  execute  duplicate  receipts  therefor 
in  the  manner  aforesaid.     And  each  of  said  clei'ks  shall  keep 


220 


CITY   ATTORNEY. 


Clerks  shall  keep 
accounts,  how. 


City  attornev,  aud 
duties  of. 


Shall  bring  and 
prosecute  suits. 


Shall  draw  all  in- 
struments for  city. 


Shall  render  ac- 
counts, when,  aud 
how. 


Compensation  of, 
how  made. 


May  employ  addi- 
tional counsel, 
when. 


Shall  keep  register 
of  writs  and  make 
report  to  Court  of 
Common  Council 
annually. 


a  faithful  and  detailed  account  of  all  sums  accruing  to  and 
due  to  the  city  treasury  on  account  of  his  said  court,  dis- 
tributing the  items  thereof  according  to  the  various  kinds 
of  sources  of  expenditure  or  income. 

Sec.  4.  The  city  attorney  shall  bring  all  necessary  suits 
for  the  recovery  of  penalties  and  forfeitures  accruing  to  the 
city  treasury  for  violations  of  city  ordinances,  before  the  City 
Court;  shall  prosecute  and  defend,  as  the  attorney  and  counsel 
of  the  city,  all  suits  or  actions  brought  by  or  against  the  city ; 
shall,  when  requested  by  the  chief  of  police,  appear  and  pros- 
ecute any  cause  pending  before  the  Police  Court ;  shall  draft 
all  instruments,  process,  or  forms  of  proceeding  required  of 
him  by  the  officers  of  said  city,  or  the  Court  of  Common 
Council,  or  any  committee  thereof;  and  shall  pay  into  the 
city  treasury,  as  often  as  once  in  three  months,  all  sums  re- 
ceived or  collected  by  him,  and  at  the  same  time  deliver  an 
account  thereof  to  the  auditor  of  city  accounts,  deducting 
from  the  amounts  thereof  any  necessary  disbursements  which 
he  shall  have  made  on  account  of  the  city.  He  shall  also 
transmit  to  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  at  its  meeting 
next  succeeding  the  making  by  him  of  any  payment  into  the 
city  treasury,  a  statement  of  his  charges  for  his  official  ser- 
vices, and  such  compensation  shall  be  made  therefor  as  said 
court  shall  allow.  This  last  account,  for  the  current  year, 
shall  be  by  him  delivered  to  the  city  auditor  at  least  three 
weeks  before  the  annual  city  election.  He  may  employ  such 
additional  counsel  to  aid  in  the  trial  or  preparation  of  any 
cause,  wherein  the  city  is  interested,  as  shall  be  approved  by 
the  mayor  and  auditing  committee. 

Sec.  5.  The  city  attorney  shall  keep  a  register  of  all  writs 
and  legal  proceedings  to  which  the  city  is  a  party  or  in  which 
the  city  shall  have  assumed  the  defence ;  and  at  the  expira- 
tion of  each  year,  or  sooner  if  required,  make  a  full  report  to 
the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  all  suits  or  other  legal  pro- 
ceedings, in  which  the  city  is  interested,  whether  finished  or 
pending,  the  names  of  the  parties  and  the  progress  or  results 
of  the  suits. 


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COMMITTEE    OP   WAYS   AND    MEANS  —  CONVEYANCES.  221 

Sec.  6.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  committee  on  ways  and  Examination  of 

•^  •'  accounts  of  city 

means  to  examine  at  least  twice  in  each  year,  to  wit:  on  the  *'^**'""^'^- 
last  business  days  of  March  and  September,  the  accounts  of 
the  city  treasurer  relating  both  to  receipts  and  disbursements 

and  the  vouchers  for  the  same,  also  to  examine  the  bonds,  _ 

cash,  and  trust  and  other  funds  in  the  hands  of  said  treasurer, 

and  to  examine  the  condition  of  the  sinking  fund,  and  to  re-  Kxamination  of 

'-^  sinlcing  fund. 

port  the  results  of  such  examinations  in  detail  to  the  Court 
of  Common  Council. 

Sec  7.     Said  committee  of  ways  and  means  shall  at  least  ^''^^'^'^"fjf"^?^. 
twice  in  each  year,  to  wit:  on  the  last  business  days  of  April  ''°"''*=""'- 
and  October,  examine  and  audit  the  accounts  of  the  city  col- 
lector, and  report  the  result  of  such  examination  to  the  Court 
of  Common  Council. 

Sec.  8.  All  grants,  leases  and  conveyances  of  any  real  c^ou^'Sucerof^c'ify. 
estate  belonging  to  said  city,  executed  by  the  mayor  of  the 
city,  sealed  with  the  city  seal,  approved  by  the  Court  of 
Common  Council  in  a  legal  meeting,  and  recorded  in  the 
town  where  the  lands  conveyed  lie,  shall  be  effectual  to 
convey  such  estate. 

Sec.  9.     All  conveyances  of  personal  property  belonging  Personal  property 
o  the  city,  of  greater  value  than  one  hundred  dollars,  and  howlx^S**^^' 
all  evidences  of  debt  issued  by  the  city,  shall,  when  specially 
authorized  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  be  executed  by 
the  city  treasurer,  sealed  with  the  city  seal,  and  certified  by 
the  mayor. 


222 


FIRE  .DEPARTMENT. 


CHAPTER  ly. 


FIRE  DEPARTMENT. 


Board  of  fire  commissiouers,  how  consti- 
tuted, and  terms  of  office ;  powers  of. 

Fire  department,  how  composed,  salaries 
of. 

Duty  of  chief  engineer. 

Duty  of  assistant  engineers. 

Duty  of  fire  commissioners. 

Fire  department,  how  paid. 

Injuries  to  fire  apparatus  and  property, 
and  interference,  how  punished. 

Powers  of  engineer  and  assistant  engi- 
neer. 


False  alarm,  how  punished. 

Forfeitures,  how  recoverable. 

Fire  marshal,  how  elected,  and  term  of 

office. 
Fire  marshal,  duties  and  powers  of. 
Building  permits. 
Fire  marshal  not  entitled  to  fees. 
Obstruction  to  orders  and  duties  of,  how 

punished. 
Records  and  reports  of  fire  marshal. 


Board  of  tire  com- 
luissiouers,  how 
constituted,  aud 
terms  of  office. 


Bhall  have  mauagc- 
mcut  of  tire  depart- 
lucut,  subject  to 
ordinances. 


Powers  of  the 
board. 


May  appoint  aud 
remove  members  of 
department. 


May  expel  members 
or  disband  and  reor- 
ganize company. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford: 

Section  1.  There  shall  be  a  board  of  tire  commissioners^ 
of  the  City  of  Hartford  consisting  of  six  electors  of  said  city, 
and  each  commissioner  shall  hold  his  office  for  three  years 
and  until  his  successor  is  appointed  and  qualified. 

Sec.  2.  Said  board  of  fire  commissioners  shall  have  the 
general  management  and  control  of  the  fire  department  of 
said  city  in  the  manner,  hereinafter  provided,  subject  hoAv- 
ever  to  the  ordinances  of  the  city  and  to  the  orders  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Council. 

Sec.  3.  The  fire  commissioners  shall  have  power  to  ap- 
point the  requisite  number  of  persons  to  perform  the  duties 
of  their  several  positions  as  set  fo:  th  in  this  ordinance,  the 
fire  marshal  excepted,  who  shall  hold  their  places  during 
good  behavior,  and  until  reir  oved  for  cause.  But  no  person 
shall  be  appointed  to  any  office  without  the  assent  of  at  least  i 
four  of  said  commissioners.  Said  commissioners  shall  have 
power  to  suspend  or  expel  any  member  of  any  company,  and 
to  disband  or  reorganize  any  company;  and  they  shall  also, 
adopt  a  suitable  uniform  to  be  worn  by  the  officers  and  men ; 
and  generally  said  fire  commissioners  shall  adopt  such  rules 


For  apiMintment  of  fire  commissioners,  see  page  58. 


FIRE    DEPARTMENT.  223 

and  regulations  for  their  own  government,  and  of  the  fire 

department,  as  they  shall  deem  expedient  for  the  interest  of 

said  department;  ^provided,  such   rules   and   regulations  are 

not  inconsistent  with  the  laws  of  this  state  or  the  ordinances 

of  the  city  of  Hartford.     They  shall   keep  a  record  of  all  ^SeSr°'''°' 

their  proceedings,  subject  to  the  inspection  of  .the  mayor  and  ^~ 

members  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council. 

Sec.  4.  The  fire  department  shall  consist  of  a  chief  ^^;«;?j^''j^J™«g°|' 
engineer,  three  assistant  engineers,  one  fire  marshal,  one 
superintendent  of  fire  alai'ms,  who  shall  be  appointed  and 
paid  pursuant  to  existing  ordinances,  and  shall  perform  the 
duties  prescribed  therein :  six  steam  fire  engine  companies,  to 
consist  as  follow^s :  each  company  in  charge  of  a  self-propelling- 
engine,  of  one  foreman,  one  engineer,  one  second  engineer, 
one  tillerman,  one  driver  of  hose  carriage,  and  nine  extra 
men;  the  remaining  companies  of  one  foreman,  one  engineer, 
one  fireman,  one  engine  driver,  one  driver  of  hose  carriage, 
and  eight  extra  men;  one  hose  company,  to  consist  of  one 
foreman,  one  driver,  one  assistant  driver  and  four  hosemen ; 
one  hook  and  ladder  company,  to  consist  of  one  foreman, 
one  driver,  one  tillerman  and  eighteen  extra  men;  one 
permanent  substitute. 

Sec.  5.     The  steam  engine  companies  shall  each  have  one  steam  engine 

*-'  -•-  companies. 

steam  engine,  one  hose  reel,  and  necessary  horses,  hose  and 
apparatus. 

Sec.  6.     The  hook  and  ladder  company  shall  have  one  truck,  hoo^  an<i  ladder 

■J-         •^  '  company. 

and  necessary  horses  and  apparatus.     The  hose  company  shall  hosg  company. 
have  one  hose  carriage,  and  necessary  horses  and  apparatus. 

Sec.  7.     The  salaries  of  the  officers  and  men  comprising  »'''»':'«« »f 

1  O  members. 

this  department  shall  consist  of  the  following  sums  per 
annum,  payable  monthly:  Chief  engineer  two  thousand  dol- 
lars; each  assistant  engineer  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars; 
the  fire  marshal  four  hundred  dollars;  the  superintendent  of 
fire  alarms  nine  hundred  dollars ;  the  foreman  of  each  com- 
pany two  hundred  dollars;  the  engineer  of  each  steamer  one 
thousand  dollars;  the  second  engineer  of  each  steamer  eight 
hundred  dollars;  each  fireman  one  hundred  and  seventy-five 
dollars;   each  driver  or  tillerman  of  steamer  eight  hundred 


224 


FIRE.  DEPARTMENT. 


dollars ;  each  driver  of  hose  carriage  seven  hundred  and  fifty 


dollars;  each  assistant  driver  of  hose 


six  hundred 


Engineer  of  steamer 
must  he  a  practical 
macliinist. 


Chief  engineer 
must  give  undivided 
attention  to  duties. 


Engines,  where 
located. 


Fire  commissioners 
chargeable  for  good 
order. 


Duties  of  chief 
engineer  and 
assistants. 


Chief  engineer  to 
command  at  fires. 


Duties  of  engineer. 


and  fifty  dollars;  tillerman  of  hook  and  ladder  truck  seven 
hundred  and  fifty  dollars ;  the  driver  of  the  hook  and  ladder 
truck  eight  hundred  dollai-s ;  each  extra  man,  known  as  bunker, 
one  hundred  and  seventy-five  dollars ;  each  extra  man,  known 
as  hoseman  or  ladderman,  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars ;  the 
permanent  substitute  seven  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

Sec.  8.  No  person  shall  hereafter  be  appointed  to  the 
position  of  engineer  of  any  steamer  unless  he  shall  be  a 
practical  machinist,  and  the  chief  engineer  shall  give  his 
undivided  attention  to  the  duties  of  his  office. 

Sec.  9.  The  steam  fire  engine,  hose,  and  hook  and  ladder 
companies  shall  be  located  at  such  points  as  the  commis- 
sioners shall  designate. 

Sec.  10.  The  fire  commissioners  shall  be  responsible  for 
the  discipline,  good  order,  and  proj^er  conduct  of  the  whole 
department,  both  officers  and  men,  and  for  the  care  of  the 
horses,  engines,  hose  reels,  and  other  furniture  and  apparatus 
thereto  belonging;  they  shall  have  superintendence  and  con- 
trol of  all  the  engine  and  other  houses  used  for  the  j^urposes 
of  the  fire  department,  and  all  the  furniture  and  apparatuaBI 
thereto  belonging.  "' 

Sec.  11.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  chief  engineer  and 
his  assistants,  whenever  a  fire  shall  break  out  in  the  city,  to 
immediately  repair  to  the  place  of  the  fire,  and  to  take 
proper  measures  that  the  several  engines  and  other  apparatus 
be  arranged  in  the  most  advantageous  situations. 

Sec.  12.     The  chief  engineer  shall  have  the  sole  comman( 
at  fires  over  all  other  officers,  all  members  of  the  fire  depan 
ment,  and  all  other  persons  who  may  be  present  at  fires,  an< 
shall  take  all  proper  measures  for  the  extinguishment  of  fire^ 
and  for  the  protection  of  property,  preservation  of  order,  an( 
observance  of  the  laws  of  the  state,  ordinances  of  the  city, 
and  regulations   of  the  fire  commissioners  respecting  fires  m 
and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  engineer  to  examine  into  the 
condition  of  the  engines  and  all  other  fire  apparatus,  and  ot^ 
the  engine  and  other  houses  belonging  to  the  city  used 


1  foJI 


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FIRE   DEPARTMENT.  225 

the   purposes   of   the   lire   department    and   the   companies 
attached,  as  often  as  circumstances  may  render  it  expedient, 
ou  whenever   directed   to  do  so  by  the   Court  of  Common 
Council  or  fire   commissioners,  and  annually  to  report   the  fjj^j]  ™J,^*'  ''^"'^ 
same  to  said  court;  and  whenever  the  engines  or  other  fire 
apparatus,  engine,  or  other  houses  used  by  the  fire  depart- 
ment,   require   alterations,    additions,    or  repairs,   the    chief 
engineer  shall  report  the  same  to  the  fire  commissioners,  and 
on  their  order,  such  alterations,  additions,  or  repairs  shall  be  ^'^rSoVLaae 
made,  provided  however,  that  when  the  cost  of  making  such  L\XXioii!"rf. '''' 
alterations,  additions,  or  repairs  Avill  exceed  the  sum  of  five 
hundred  dollars,  said  fire  commissioners  shall  first  submit  the 
estimates  of  the  same  to  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  and 
shall  not  order  the  same  until  the  Court  of  Common  Council 
shall  by  vote  have   given   their   approval   thereto.     And  it 
shall  be  moreover  the  duty  of  said  chief  engineer  to  receive  fubmu«i!ar^ '''''" 
and  transmit  to  the  said  fire  commissioners,  for  the  use  of  the  '"'""■"'• 
Court  of  Common  Council,  all   the  returns   of  the  officers, 
members,  and  fire  apparatus  made  by  the  respective  compa- 
nies, and  all  other  communications  relating  to  the  affairs  of 
the  tire  department;  to  keep  proper  and  exact  rolls  of  the 
resj^ective  companies,  specifying  the  time  of  admission  and 
discharge,  and  age  of  each  member,  which  he  shall  report  in 
writing  to  said  fire  commissioners,  who  shall  safely  file  and 
preserve  such  reports. 

Sec.  13.     In  case  of  the  absence  of  the  chief  engineer  at  senior  assistant 

c3  engineer  shall  act, 

any  fire,  the  senior  assistant  engineer  present  shall  have  the  '''"'°' 
power  and  perform  the  duties  of  chief  engineer. 

Sec.  14.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  fire  commissioners  to  commissioners shaii 

*^  make  rules  and 

prepare  rules  and  regulations  for  the  government  of  the  fire  '••"s"''*"""^- 
companies   and   the   members   thereof,  and    to  furnish  each 
nu^mber  of  the  fire  department  with  a  copy  of  said  rules,  and 
to   have   said  rules   posted  conspicuouslv  in  aiul  about   the  Ruiestobepostedin 

^  a  •/  engine  houses. 

several  engine  houses  belonging  to  the  department,  and  to 
give  notice  that  they  are  pre])ared  to  receive  application  for 
membership  in  the  cit}'  lire  department,  whenever  vacancies 
shall  occur  therein. 


226  FIRE    DEPARTMENT. 

Fire  commissioners       Sec.  15.     It  sliall  be  the  fluty  of  tlic  fire  commissioners  to 

shall  purchase  and 

sell  property,  when,  p^^^.^liase  foi'  tho  city  such  apparatus  and  other  property,  both 
real  and  personal,  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  Avants  of  the 
department,  and  also  to  sell  or  exchange  in  the  manner  pro- 
vided by  the  ordinances  of  the  city,  Avhen  they  shall  deem 
best,  any  of  the  real  and  personal  property  of  the  city  in  nse 

Provided.  by  the  fire  department,  provided  snch  pnrchase  or  sale  shall 

be  first  approved  by  a  resohition  of  the  Conrt  of  Common 
Conncil. 

Auditor  shall  draw       Sec.  16.     Thc  auditor  is  herebv  anthorized  and  directed  to 

order  for  salaries, 

^''*'°"  draw  his  order  on  the  city  treasurer  in  favor  of  the  persons 

entitled  thereto,  for  snch  amounts  of  money  as  may  be  neces- 
sary for  the  payment  of  the  salaries  of  the  officei-s  and  men 
appointed  by  virtue  of  the  charter  and  ordinances  of  the  city 
to  serve  in  the  fire  department.  And  in  no  case  except  the 
fire   marshal    shall    such   order   be   drawn   unless   a   proper 

Vouchers  to  he       vouchcr,  iudorscd  •' correct"  by  at  least  two  of  the  fire  com- 

Indorsed. 

missioners,  be  first  filed  with  said  auditor. 
Kire  uniform  to  i,e        Sec.  17.     If  any  pcrsbu  or  persons  not  a  member  of  the 

used  only  bv  * 

department.  pj^y  f|j,g  department  shall  use  the  uniform  determined  upon 

by  the  fire  commissioners,  or  any  part  thereof,  such  person 

Penalty  for  or  pcrsous  shall  each  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  (~^ity  of  Hartford 

violation.  . 

a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than  twenty 
dollars  for  each  and  every  oifence. 
Injuring  fire  appa.       Sec.  18.     If  any  pcrsou  or  persons  shall  injure,  deface,  or  in 

ratus  or  ohstruetius;  . 

SuSed.'"''  ^^y  manner  destroy  any  city  fire  apparatus,  or  it  any  person 
or  persons  shall  liinder  or  obstruct  any  city  fire  company, 
hose,  or  hook  and  ladder  company,  or  any  member  thereof, 
from  freely  passing  along  the  streets  of  the  city  to  or  from 
fire,  or  in  any  manner  hinder  or  prevent  any  of  said  fire  com 
]:)anies  or  any  member  of  the  same  from  operating  at  an 
fire,  each  and  every  person  or  ])ersons  so  hindering,  obstruct 
ing,  or  preventing  shall  forfeit  and  ]iay  to  the  City  of  Hart- 
ford a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more  than 
twenty  dollars  for  each  and  every  offence. 

Chief  engineer  and       Sec.  19.     The  chicf  engineer  and  his  assistants  are  liereb 

assistants  shall  have  ,  , 

police  powers,  when,  authorizcd  to  cxcrcisc  the  powers  of  police  oincers  m  gom 
tOj  while  at,  and  returning  from  any  fire  that  may  occur,  o: 


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FIRE  DEPARTMENT.  227 

any  fire  alarm  j  and  they  shall  have  the  use  and  control  of 
any  and  all  the  hydrants  and  reservoirs  belonging  to  the  city 
during  the  continuance  of  fires. 

Sec.  20.     No  pay  shall  be  allowed  either  of  said  fire  com-  J,';j;U;';.^^'^°^;f 
■missiuners  for  any  services  rendered  by  him  in  the  discharge         ^ 
of    his    duties    as    such    commissioner;    but    his   necessary 
expeuses  and  disbursements  in  the  execuiwon  of  the  duties  of 
his  office  shall  be  paid  from  the  city  treasury. 

Sec.  21.     The  chief  engineer  shall  designate  the  assistant  ^otSuS?'"' 
engineers  as  first,  second,  and  third  assistant  engineers;  and 
the  seniorit}'  of  said  assistant  engineers  shall  be  determined 
by  (lie  number  which  said  assistant  engineer  bears. 

Sec.  22.     If  in  the  opinion  of  the  chief  engineer,  or  in  case  Iua'.^r;:ets  may  bf 

..i-i  i'ii  •  '     1         j_  •  iii        stopped  during'a 

<)t  Jus  absence,  ot  the  senior  assistant  engineer  present,  the  Kre. 
safety  of  the  hose,  or  other  apparatus  belonging  to  the  fire 
department  of  said  city,  or  the  facilities  for  the  performance 
of  any  other  duties  required  of  the  firemen  by  the  laws  of 
said  city,  at  any  time  require  that  the  traveling  or  passing 
of  any  wagon,  carriage,  or  other  vehicle,  be  interrupted  and 
sto})[KMl  in  or  ui>on  or  excluded  from  any  highway,  or  portion 
of  any  highway  or  highways  in  said  city,  during  the  per- 
foruiance  of  said  duty,  or  any  part  thereof,  the  engineer,  or, 
in  his  absence  the  senior  assistant  engineer  present,  is,  and 
they,  each  of  them,  are  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to 
order  and  cause  the  traveling  or  passing  on  said  highway,  or 
})art  of  highway,  to  cease  during  the  performance  of  said  - 
duty ;  and  also,  to  put  and  place  in,  upon,  or  across  said  high- 
way, or  part  of  highway,  as  he  shall  direct,  suitable  iron 
chain  or  chains,  rope,  or  other  obstructions,  there  to  remain 
until  said  fire  duty  is  performed,  and  no  longer;  and  also  to 
order  and  command  any  owner,  driver  of  any  and  all  vehi- vchidt-s mav  be 
eleS;  of  any  description  whatever,  to  remove  the  same  from 
any  portion  of  said  highway,  and  not  to  drive  on,  to,  or 
across  the  same  during  the  performance  of  said  duty;  and  if 
any  person  shall  willfully  remove  or  assist  in  removing  any 
chain,  rope,  or  other  things  thus  placed  in,  upon,  or  across 
any  higlnvay  in  this  city,  as  aforesaid,  or,  if  any  owner  or 
driver  of  any  vehicle  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  obey  any  order 


228 


FIRE   DEPARTMENT. 


Penalty. 


Buildings  ma.v  bo 
demolished,  when. 


False  alarms,  ])eii- 
aliv  for. 


Endangering  limld- 
ing,  how  puuibhi'd. 


Penalties,  how 
recovered. 


Parent  or  guardi 
responsible  ior 
minor. 


Fire  marshal,  how 
appointed  and  term 
of  oftiue. 


Duties  of  tire 
marshal. 


Shall  examine  chim- 
neys, heating  appa- 
ratus, etc. 


or  command  made  upon  him.  or  given  to  him.  as  aforesaid, 
every  person  so  oifending  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  City  of 
Hartford  a  penalty  of  five  dollars. 

Sec.'23.  Whenever  it  >shall  be  necessary  to  demolish  any 
building  in  said  city,  in  order  to  stop  the  progress  of  fire,  the 
chief  engineer  may  cause  the  same  to  be  done,  having  first 
obtained  the  conseiit  of  the  mayor  thereto,  or,  in  the  absence 
of  the  mayor,  the  consent  of  any  fire  commissioner. 

Sec.  24.  If  any  person  shall  knowingly  give  a  false  alarm 
of  fire  in  said  city,  or  shall  knowingly  proclaim  that  any  fire 
is  extinguished  or  out  w^hen  it  is  not,  such  person  shall  forfeit 
and  pay  to  the  City  of  Hartford  a  penalty  of  twenty  dollars. 

Sec.  25.  If  any  person  shall  carry  into  any  Invrn  or  hay 
lott,  any  lighted  candle  or  lamp  not  enclosed  in  a  lantern,  or 
any  lighted  cigar  or  pipe,  such  person  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to 
the  City  of  Hartford  a  penalty  of  five  dollars. 

Sec.  26.  All  forfeitures  and  penalties  incurred  under  the 
ordinances,  relating  to  the  fire  department,  except  when  • 
otherwise  provided,  shall  be  recoverable  by  the  attorney  of 
the  city  before  the  City  Court,  in  an  action  brought  in  the 
name  of  said  city,  for  the  use  of  the  city  treasury ;  and  when 
any  niijior  shall  be  guilty  of  any  breach  of  this  ordinance,  w 
the  parent,  guardian,  or  master  of  such  minor  whall  be  liable 
to  pay  the  penalty  therefor;  and  the  same  shall  be  recovera- 
ble of  such  parent,  guardian,  or  master,  by  action  brought 
against  them  in  the  manner  aforesaid. 

Sec.  27.  At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Court  of  Common , 
Council,  for  the  choice  of  city  ofiicers,  there  shall  be  chosen* 
by  concurrent  vote  a  fire  marshal,  who  shall  hold  his  otfice 
for  one  year,  and  until  his  successor  shall  be  chosen  and 
qualified. 

Sec.  28.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  fire  marshal,  from 
time  to  time  during  the  year,  as  occasion  may  require,  to 
examine,  throughout  said  city,  the  fire-places,  chimneys, 
heating  and  cooking  apparatus  and  pipes  connected  there- 
with, of  all  houses,  out-houses,  and  buildings  in  said  city, 
also  all  places  where  ashes  are  kept,  and  upon  finding  any  of 
them  defective  or  dangerous,  shall  order  such  to  be  cleaned, 


FIRE   3IARSHAL.  229 

altered,  or  amended,  as  may  seem  to  him  tlie  occasion 
requires.  And  in  case  any  heating  or  cooking  apparatus,  or 
the  pipes  connected  therewith,  are  erected  or  set  up  in  such 
l)Uices  as  to  unreasonably  endanger  said  city  to  the  perils  of 
fire,  and  the  same  cannot  be  altered  so  as  to  be  rendered  oKhetl';^^!!!^ 
reasonably  safe,  said  fire  marshal  shall  order  all  such  appa- 
ratus to  be  removed ;  and  all  orders,  in  respect  to  any  of  the 
particulars  in  this  section  mentioned,  shall  be  given  in  the 
manner  following,  viz.:  The  fire  marshal  shall  specify  in  onier.^t"^bem^ 
writing  the  thing  to  be  done,  and  a  reasonable  time  within 
which  the  order  must  be  complied  w^ith,  and  shall  leave  a 
true  copy  of  said  order,  signed  by  him,  in  the  hands  of  the 
[)crson  upon  whom  said  order  is  made;  or  if  he  or  she  be 
absent,  at  his  or  her  place  of  abode. 

Sec.  29.     In  all  cases  in  which  said  fire  nuirshal  shall  judii;e  tire  marshal  may 

"         ~      ordtT  scuttle,  when. 

it  necessary  for  the  safety  of  said  city  from  fire,  that  a  scuttle 

should  be  made  to  a  dwelling-house,  or  any  other  building  in 

said  city,  he  shall  give  an  order  in  writing,  in  the  manner  <JrJ»^^r«.  i'""  siveu. 

specified  in  the  twenty-eighth  section  of  this  ordinance,  to 

the    proprietor   or   proprietors    of    said    dwelling-house    or 

building,  directing  that  a  scuttle,  with  proper  steps  or  stairs 

leading  to  the  same,  be  made  within  such  time  as  shall  be 

limited  in  said  order. 

Seg.  30.     In  all  cases  in  which  shavint»;s,  strawy  or  other  shavings,  straw, 

^    ^  '  etc.,  may  be 

combustible  material  shall  be  sufi'ered  to  be  or  remain  in  or  '■^""''^'^'  ''*"'"• 
near  any  buildings  in  said  city,  in  such  manner  as  to  expose 
said  city  to  danger  from  fire,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  fire 
marshal  to  give  a  written  order,  in  the  manner  specified  in  order,  how  made. 
the  tAventy-eighth  section  of  this  ordinance,  to  the  person  or 
persons  occupying  or  OAvning  the  place  where  such  shavings, 
straw,  or  combustible  materials  may  be,  to  remove  the  same  ^ 

within  such  time  as  shall  be  specified  in  said  order. 
Sec.  31.     The  fire  marshal  shall  have  power,  at  all  reasona-  shaii  have  power  to 

J-  ^  e.\aiiiiuel>uildiiigs 

ble  times,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty,  to  enter  into  and  examine  '^"'^  "^»>«^^'"  ••'"«««• 
all  buildings  and  lots  Avhere  lumbei-  and  other  combustible 
materials  are  stored,  in  said  city,  to  inspect  places  where  fire 
is  used,  to  direct  in  what  manner  ashes  and  matches  shall  be 
kept,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  examine  into  any  and  all 


230  FIRE    MARSHAL. 

violations  of  any  ordinance  within  the  scope  of  his  duty,  and 
report  the  same  to  the  city  attorney  for  prosecution. 
No  person  Shan  ircct      Sec.  32.     Everv  pcrsou  who  shall  erect  or  place  within  any 

or  place  stove,  I'ur-  f    i-  x  •' 

lugoVheSappa-  buildiug  wlthiu  the  limits  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  except 
houses,  except  by     such   as   havc   thclr  outer  walls  composed  wholly  of  iron. 

couseut  of  fire  luar-  J-  "^ 

oouucii.""'"'"""  brick,  stone,  or  mortar,  any  chimney,  stove,  fire-place,  fur- 
nace, or  other  apparatus,  for  heating  or  cooking,  without  the 
consent  of  the  fire  marshal,  or  contrary  to  the  direction  of 
the  Court  of  Common  Council,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  of 

Penalty.  uot  morc  thau  thirty  dollars,  for  the  use  of  the  city  treasury, 

for  every  month  that  the  same  shall  remain,  either  without 
the  consent  of  the  said  fire  marshal,  or  contrary  to  the  direc- 
tion of  the  Court  of  Common  Council  and  said  fire  marshal, 
before   giving   his   consent,  shall   see  that  such   cooking  or 

Sei'^tm"appalatu.s  hcatiiig  apparatus  be  safely  placed,  and  that  the  pipes  thereof 

be  sa  eij  arranpc. .  ^^  couduct  tlic  licat  aud  thc  suiolvC  bc  sct  aiul  run  in  a  secure 
manner  so  as  not  to  endanger  the  building  in  which  the  same 
is  placed,  or  any  building  or  Imildings  adjoining  or  adjacent 
thereto. 

Consent  of  couucii        Sec.  33.     Evcrv  pcrsoii  who  shall  erect,  add  to.  move  or 

necessary  for  thc  ..       x  '  ' 

buudings.^  place  any  dwelling  house,  shop,  store,  barn,  or  other  building, 

except  privies,  in  this  city,  without  the  consent  of  the  Court m 
of  Common  Council,  as  to  the  mode  of  said  erection  or  addi- 

ErectionofiuuMing  tlou,  or  uiatcrials  used  or  without  the  consent  of  said  Court 

without  consent  of  ' 

punished."*  of  Common  Council  to  such  removal,  or  in  any  manner  con- 

trary to  the  ordinances  of  said  city,  or  tlie  allowance  or 
direction  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  shall  forfeit  and 
pay  the  sum  of  fifty  dolhu'S  to  the  City  of  Hartford  for  the 
use  of  the  city  treasury,  and  the  further  sum  of  not  more 

Penalty  if  building  tliau  fiftv  dollars   for   every  week  that   such  biuldiiig  shall 

remain  without  .  ./  o 

permissiou.  rcnuiin  Avithout  such  permission;  and  it  is  hereby  provide<l 

that  the  continuance  of  any  such  building  without  such  per- 
mission, shall  for  each  Aveek  after  such  act  be  deemed  a 
separate  and  single  olfence. 

What  petitions  to         8kc.  34.     All  pctitious  to  the  Court  of  Common  Council. 

build  shall  specify,  -■• 

relating  to  buildings,  shall  specify  the  material  of  which  the 
outer  walls  and  the  outer  covering  of  the  roof  of  said  l>uild- 
ing  are  to  be  composed,  the  street  upon  which,  and  the  dis- 


FIRE    MARSHAL.  231 

tance   from  tlu'  street   at  which  the    said  buikling  is  to  be 

placed,  and  all  such  petitions  shall  be  referred  to  the  com-  K.jJ^.fJf.'f'^ ''' 

mittee  of  the  fire   department,  who   shall   enfxuire  into  the  "''"""'"' *^- 

matters  asked  for  in  said  petitions,  and  make  their  report  to 

the  Conrt  of  Common  Council,  who  may  grant  such  petitions  ^ 

under  such  restrictions  as  they  may  think  proper. 

Sec.  35.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  fire  marshal  to  attend  K,e°onn=S 

,  -  -  ini  fires,  ami  how  to 

at  every  fire  occurring  in  said  city;  and  when  he  shall  Jiave  proceea. 

tmy  reason  to  l)elieYe  that  any  fire  may  liave  been  incendiary 

in  its  origin,  it  shall  he  his  duty  to  inquire  into  the  cause  of 

said  fire,  in  behalf  of  said  city,  and  to  proceed  in  said  inquiry 

in  the  manner  provided  by  the  statutes  of  this  state  in  such 

case  provided.     No  fee  shall  be  paid  said  fire  marshal  for  his  If;,,');^^^^"^,^;*;  p'^''^ 

said  inquiry  and  investigation  on  behalf  of  said  city  into  tlie 

cause  of  any  such  fire,  but  his  salary  shall  be  in  lieu  thereof, 

and  in  lieu  of  any  other  services  devolved  upon  him  by  virtue 

of  this  ordinance,  or  any  other  ordinance,  imposing  duties 

upon  liim.     All  witness  fees,  service  of  subpoenas,  and  cash 

advances  arising  out  of  the  investigation  into  the  cause  of  c^|>,»;J^^n^ytobe 

any  fire,  shall  be  paid  from  the  treasury  of  said  city ;  and  it  ''"*'•''''"■''• 

shall  be  the  duty  of  said  fire  marshal  to  forward  the  amount 

of  the  same  to  the  Court  of  Common  Council  for  payment,  same,  how  i-aid. 

accompanied  by  his  certificate  that  said  expenses  were  justly 

incurred  in  the  prosecution  of  said  investigation. 

Seo.  30.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  to  fulfill  all  The  duty  of  everv 


person  to  obey 
writtfu  orders  of 
lire  marshal. 


nd  every  written  order  of  the  fire  marshal,  issued  by  him  in 
conformity  Avith  any  ordinance  noAV  existing  or  which  shall 
hereafter  be  enacted. 

Sec.  37.  If  any  person  or  persons  shall,  contrary  to  the  p-n^ify •'" ^^"'"^e. 
ordinances  of  the  city,  neglect  or  refuse  to  compl}^  with  any 
su(;h  order  of  the  fire  marshal,  or  shall  hinder  or  obstruct  the 
fire  marshal  in  the  discharge  of  any  of  his  duties,  such 
])erso]i  or  persons  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding 
fifty  dollars  for  each  offence,  and  the  same  shall  be  deemed  a 
misdemeanor  and  may  be  prosecuted  as  such  before  tlic  Police 
Court  like  other  offences. 

Sec.  38.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  fire  marshal  to  keep  a  Fire  mat-shai shaii 

*'  ■"  keep  record, 

record  book,  wherein  he  shall  record  all  orders  by  him  made, 


232 


BONDS    OF    CTTY    OFFICERS. 


and  all  written  complaints  made  to  him  under  this  ordinance, 
and  all  examinations  made  by  him  pursuant  to  the  provisions 
Shall  iiiKke annual  hercof*  aud  to  uiakc  an  annual  report  to  tlie  Court  of  Common 
Council  of  tlie  services  performed  by  him  during  the  year  as 
said  fire  marshal. 


CHAPTEE  Y. 


BONDS  OF  CITY  OFFICERS. 


Bond.s  of  city  officers,  how  executed. 

Bond  of  city  treasurer. 

President  of  board  of  water  commission- 
ers. 

City  auditor. 

President  of  the  board  of  street  commis- 
sioners. 


Bond  of  city  marshal,  clerk  of  the  police 
court,  clerk  of  the  city  court,  city  at- 
torney. 

Other  officers,  or  committees  holding 
moneys  to  give  bonds. 


Conditions  of  bond. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford : 

Bonds  of  city  Section  1.     All  bouds  of  city  officers  shall  be  payable  to 

oftifiers,  how  payable 

and  how  executed.  ^\^q  City  of  Hartford,  and  shall  be  executed  by  the  principal 
and  two  sufficient  sureties  to  the  approbation  of  the  mayor. 
Such  bonds  shall  be  conditioned  on  the  faithful  performaiu'e 
by  the  principal  of  all  his  official  duties  due  to  the  City  of 
Hartford  by  virtue  of  his  appointment,  and  upon  his  savini;- 
the  city  from  all  loss,  cost,  or  damage,  by  reason  of  his  mis- 
feasance in  office,  and  upon  his  rendering  a  true  account  of 
all  his  money  dealings  for,  in  behalf  of,  and  with  said  city, 
and  upon  his  just  and  true  payment  to  the  city  treasurer  of 
all  moneys  in  his  hands  at  any  time  as  an  officer  or  agent  of 
the  city,  for  and  during  the  entire  period  for  which  he  shall 
remain  in  his  office  by  appointment  or  reelection.  Such 
bonds  sliall  be  given  before  any  such  officer  shall  enter  upon 
his  official  duties  or  continuance  longer  in  the  exercise 
thereof 

Penalties  of  bonds.  Sec.  2.  Tlic  peualtlcs  of  thc  bouds  required  of  the  several 
city  officers  shall  be  respectively  as  follows:     Of  the  city 


I 


On  re-elpf'lion  no 
new  bond  rfqiiired. 


Bonds,  wlien 
executed. 


OATHS    OF   CITY    OFFICERS.  233 

treasurer,  tAventy  thousand  •dollars;  of  the  president  of  the  Bond  of  president 

"  ./  '  ^  of  water  commis- 

l)oard  of  Avater  commissioners,  ten  thousand  dollars;  of  the  pSI'n? wdW 

street  commission- 

auditor  of  city  accounts,  three  thousand  dollars;  of  the  pres-  ^[^;X{.*'"-^ 
ident  of  the  hoard  of  street  commissioners,  three  thousand 

dollars;  of  the  city  marshal,  three  thousand  dollars;  of  the 

clerk  of  the  Police  Court,  two  thousand  dollars;  of  the  clerk  |^f4**^o'ur?cferk 
of  the  City  Court,  one  thousand  dollars;  of  the  city  attorney,  city auornoy:  *"" 
one  thousand  dollars. 

Sec.  3.     Every  other  officer^  or  committee,  in  whose  hands  ,?ol:dsi,fXsl"^''' 
money  may  he  placed  for  dishursements,  shall  give  honds  to  pi'iced. 
the  city  for  the  faithful  dishursement  of  the  same  in  such 
6ums  as  the  mayor  shall  require. 


CITAPTEU  VT. 


OATHS  OF  CITY  OFFICERS. 


Oaths  to  be  administered  to  Mayor.— 
Aldermen.— Common  councilmen.— 
City  clerk.  —  Clerk  of  council  board.  — 
Marshal,  and  deputy  marshal.  — Clerk 
of  City  Court.— Clerk  of  Police  Court.— 
Police  commissioners.—  Park  commis- 
sioners.— Fire  commissioners.  —  Police 
officers.— Policemen.—  Street  commis- 


sioners.—Water  commissioners.— Treas- 
urer.— Auditor. — Recorder,  and  judges 
of  City  Court.— Police  judge.— City 
jurors.—  City  attorney.-  Collector.— 
City  surveyor.— Inspector  of  fire  wood. 
—Sealer  of  weights  and  measures. 
Certificate  of  such  oaths  to  be  lodged  with 
city  clerk. 


Be  it  ordamed  hy  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford: 

Section  1.     Before  any  mayor,  alderman,  common  council-  city  omoers  to  be 

sworn  before  quali- 

man,  clerk  of  the  city,  clerk  of  the  common  council  hoard,  «"»fo>:<i"ty. 
marshal  or  deputy  marshal,  clerk  of  the  City  Court,  clerk  of 
the  City  Police  Court,  police  commissioner,  police  officers, 
policemen,  treasurer,  auditor,  city  attorney,  street  commis- 
sioner, Avater  commissioner,  fire  commissioner,  park  commis- 
sioner, collector,  city  surveyor,  inspector,  sealer  of  Aveights 

1  For  bond  of  city  collector,  see  section  12,  page  170. 


234  OATHR    OF   CTTY    OFFICERS. 

and  meaniires.  or  any  other  offiocr  of  tlie  city  (except  judges 
and  jurors  of  tlie  City  Court),  required  by  law  or  l»y  ordi- 
nance to  be  sworn,  shall  be  qualified  to  enter  upon  the  duties 
of  his  office,  he  shall  receive  from  some  person  qualified  to 

SSvanrt'roquirfi.  admiuister  oaths,  a  form  of  oath  or  affirmatioii  specifying-  the 
office,  and  requiring  the  said  officer  faithfully  and  uprightly 
to  perform  all  the  duties  and  obligations  thereof,  according  to 
the  best  of  his  ability,  during  the  full  term  for  which  he  shall 
hold  or  continue  Tn  such  office  by  election  or  reelection  :  and 
shall  also  receive  from  the  ])erson  administering  such  oath  or 

g£"i>rp'™  affirmation  a  certificate  that  the  same  lias  been  administered 
in  due  and  legal  form,  and  shall  lodge  sai<l  certificate  Avith 

KKalinl''    ^^^^  ^^*.y  <^'l^i'^^3  to  be  by  him  kept  on  file:  provided,  that  when 

cityrterk.  ^^^^  guch  oath  shall  be  administered  by  the  mayor  or  by  any 

other  qualified  person  at  any  meeting  of  the  Coui*t  of  Com- 
mon Council  in  joint  convention,  or  of  either  board  of  said 
court,  a  record  of  the  fact  by  the  clerk  of  such  board  or  con- 

Kxoopt  ill  pertain  veutiou.  as  H  part  of  the  proceediiiii's  of  such  meeting.  naniinL>' 
the  person  or  persons  present  and  sworn,  shall  be  sufficient 

No  new  oath         witliont  a  Certificate;   provided,  however,  that  wlienever  anv 

re(|nire(l  lu  oasoof  i     j.  j  '  •- 

reelection.  ^^^^|^  officer  shall  continue  in  his  office  by  reelection  or  reap- 

pointment, no  ncAV  oath  shall  be  required. 
Oath  of  judge 01  Sec.  2.     The  recorder  of  the  City  Court  and  the  judge  and 

City  and  Poliee  •''  •'         » 

^"""''-  associate  judge  of  the  Police  Court  shall,  before  being  quali- 

fied to  enter  upon  the  duties  of  their  offices,  take  the  oath  by 
law  prescribed  for  judicial  officers  of  the  state.     Ajipraisers 

Oath ot  ai.i.raiscrs.  of  damages  or  betterments  shall  be  sworn  justly  and  truh^  to 
estimate  an<l  ap^waise  all  the  damages  or  betterments  by 
them  to  be  appraised  during  their  continuance  in  office, 
according  to  their  best  and  honest  judgment;  and  certificates 
or  a  record  of  such  oath  shall  be  made  according  to  the 
requirements  of  the  first  section  of  this  ordinance. 

Oaths  of  jurors  ot        Sec.  3.     .Turors  of  the  City  Court  shall  take  the  oath  i)re- 

Clty  Court, 

scribed  by  law  for  jurors  in  civil  actions. 


i 


I 


A3IUSEMENTS.  235 


CHAPTEE  VII. 

AMUSEMENTS. 

Public  exhibitions   prohibited   without    Penalty  for  exhibiting  without  license.  ^ 

license  of  common  council  or  its  com-    Amusement  committee,  power  and  duty 
mittee.  of. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Kartford  : 

Section    1.     Any  person   or  perisons  ^vho   shall,   without  f^'StiicuSp^^ 
tirst  obtaining"  a  license  from  the  Conrt  of  Common  Council,  iS'commiuee!' 
or  from  the  committee  appointed  by  them  for  that  purpose, 
make  a  public  display  of  any  sport,  amusement,  performance, 
concert,  opera,  or  other  public  exhibition,  within  the  limits  of 
the  City  of  Hartford,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  not 
less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  for  I'cuaity. 
each  olfence,  to  the  City  of  Hartford,  for  the  use  of  the  city 
treasury ;  and  each  se^jarate  exhibition  shall  be  a  separate 
offence  within  the  meaning  of  this  act. 

Sec.  2.  The  committee  on  amusements  of  the  Court  of  j;"^^^^^;';;'^;,^^^^^^ 
Common  Council  shall  have  power,  unless  otherwise  directed  ^''^" 
by  the  council,  to  grant  a  license  to  any  person  who  shall 
apply  for  the  same,  for  the  exhibition  of  any  such  sport, 
public  amusement,  performance,  concert,  opera,  or  other  exhi- 
bition, as  they  the  said  committee,  shall  consider  proper  to  be 
licensed,  for  such  time  as  they  shall  deem  fit,  which  license 
nui}',  at  any  time,  be  revoked  by  the  said  committee,  or  by 
the  Court  of  Common  Council. 

Sec.  3.     Such  person,  so  applying,  as  aforesaid,  shall  pay  to  f^y^^;*"""*'"^^"'" 
said  committee,  for  the  use  of  the  said  city,  such  license  fee  as 
the  said  committee  shall  deem  proper  to  fix ;  and  said  decision 
shall  be  subject  to  revision  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council, 
who  may  lessen  or  increase  the  same. 

Sec.  4.     It  shall  ho  the  duty  of  the  said  committee  to 
port  all  violations  of  this  ordinance  to  the  city  attorney,  for 
the  collection  of  tlie  penalties  mentioned  herein. 


23G 


GUNPOWDER. 


CHAPTEE  YIII. 


GUNPOWDER. 


All  water  craft  carrying  gunpowder  pro- 
hibited from  coming  to  anchor  within 
the  jurisdiction  of  the  City  of  Hartford 
above  Hockanum  river. 

Handling  of  powder,  how  conducted. 

How  conveyed  and  kept  within  the  city. 

License  to  keep,  required  when. 

Licenses  to  be  recorded. 

Gunpowder  may  be  seized  and  forfeited, 
when. 


Penalty  for  rescue  or  attempt  to  rescue 

gunpowder. 
Duty  and  powers  of  lire  marshal. 
Damages  for  injuries  by,  how  collected. 
Penalties  for  violation  of  this  ordinance. 
Sale  of  toy  pistols  regulated. 
Licenses,  how  printed. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  CoiniDon  (^oifncil  />/  the  Citt/  of 
Hartford : 


Section  1.     That  no 


vessel,  boat,  or  other  water-erat't.  uii 
shall  he  laden,  shall  come  to  oi' 


Vessels  may  recci 
guupondcrhelow 
Hockauuui  river. 


Vessels  carrying 
gunpowder  proliili 

i^^o^l^'S.!"  hoard  of  which  gunpowder 

wharves  within  'iot  i't  t  •    i  r~-i 

dii,  except  where,  hc  at  any  wharf,  slij),  or  landing  place,  withm  the  City  of 
Hartford,  or  come  to  anchor,  or  otherwise  make  ftxst  on  Con- 
necticut river  within  the  town  of  Hartford  or  Avithiii  the 
jurisdiction  of  said  city,  except  as  is  hereinafter  provided. 

Sec.  2.  Any  vessel,  boat,  or  other  water-craft,  of  suitable 
construction  with  regard  to  safety,  may  be  allowed  to  i-eceive 
gunpowder  on  board,  from  any  wharf  on  the  Connecticut  or 
great  river  opposite  the  City  or  town  of  Hartford  below  the 
mouth  of  the  Hockanum  river  and  remain  a  reasonable  and 
proper  time  for  such  lading,  Avhich  time  shall  not  exceed  one 
day  for  undecked  vessels,  and  three  days  for  decked  vessels  : 
provided,  there  be  kept  or  allowed  no  fire,  in  any  numner 
whatever,  on  board  such  vessel,  boat,  or  other  water-craft 
during  the  receiving  such  gutipowder,  nor  while  the  same 
may  remain  within  the  jurisdiction  of  said  city.  And  said  J 
powder,  when  laden  on .  board  any  vessel,  shall  immediate^,  H 
and  as  each  cask  or  package  is  received  on  board,  be  stowed 

Powder,  how  stored  awav  uudcr  deck;  or  if  received  on  board  of  an  open  boat, 

on  vessels.  ,/  '  x  -> 

or  other  water-craft,  shall  be  immediately,  and  as  each  cask 
or  package  is  received  on  board,  covered  over  with  canvas,  or 
other  suitable  covering.  And  provided  further,  that  whenever 
any'gunpowder  shall  be  received  on  said  vessel,  boat,  or  craft, 


Vessels,  how 
conducted. 


GUNPOWDER.  237 

said  vessel,  boat,  or  craft,  shall,  within  the  time  hereinbefore  ycsst-h  ladcu  shaii 

'  '  '  '  depart,  wncu. 

mentioned  in  which  said  powder  shall  be  so  received,  remove 
without  the  jurisdiction  of  said  city,  and  shall  not  be  returned 
while  said  powder,  or  any  part  thereof,  is  on  board. 

Sec.  3.     Whenever  any  gunpowder  shall  be  brought  into  ^unpordenhJuugh 
said  city  for  the  purpose  of  transit,  or  delivery  at  stores  or  ^'^"^^"  ~ 

other  buildings,  it  shall  be  conveyed  in  a  suitable  carriage 
which  shall  be  lined  on  the  bottom  and  sides  with  canvas  or 
leather,  so  as  to  prevent  the  escape  of  any  particle  of  powder, 
and  such  carriage,  and  the  powder  on  the  same,  shall  be  en-  ^,';;;[;^:j'jj'^"" 
tirely  covered  with  canvas  or  leather,  to  prevent  the  possi- 
bility of  any  fire  or  sparks  communicating  with  said  powder, 
and  said  carriage  shall  be  marked  on  either  side  w4th  capital  u",'' uilS!*^*"' 
letters,  "approved  powder  carriage;"  such  carriage  having 
first  been  approved  by  the  fire  marshal  of  said  city,  w-hose 
duty  it  shall  be  to  attend  to  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance. 
And  in  no  case  shall  powder  so  conveyed,  be  sufi:cred  to  re-  huw rumovedin 
main  in  any  such  vehicle  for  any  longer  time  than  is  neces- 
sary for  its  removal;  excepting,  however,  that  no  more  than 
two  (piarter-casks  of  twenty-five  pounds  each,  may  be  re- 
moved from  one  place  to  another  in  the  city,  in  any  other 
[U'udent  manner,  the  same  being  in  tight  casks,  each  of  which 
shall  be  put  into  a  strong  leather  bag,  and  closely  tied,  on 
which  shall  be  legibly  marked  the  word  "gunpowder."  And 
the  same  shall  remain  within  said  bags,  while  being  so  re- 
moved. 

Sec.  4.     No  person  or  persons  shall  keei),  or  have  for  sale,  NoKMni-Mv.i.r 
or  any  other  purpose,  in  any  house,  store,  or  other  buildiug,  except bViS^ 
or  in  or  upon  any  vessel,  boat,  or  other  water  craft,  within 
the  limits  of  said  city  or  the  jurisdiction  thereof,  auy  (pian- 
tity  of  gunpowder  exceeding  one  pound  in  weight,  without 
special  license  from  the  Court  of  Common  Council;  and  every 
person  so  licensed  shall  tj-ive  notice  thereof,  })y  a  siffii  erected  nohcc  of  accuse, 
in  a  conspicuous  place,  in  front  of  the  building  where  gun- 
powder is  or  may  be  deposited :  provided^  that  nothing  con- 
tained in  this  ordinance  shall  be  construed  to  prohibit  vessels  Passageof 
or  boats,  loaded  wholly  or  in  part  with  powder,  from  passing 
up  or  down  the  river. 


238 


GUNPOWDER. 


Sigu,  how  painted. 


Powder  closet,  how 
ooustruoted. 


To  be  approved  by 
tiro  marshal. 


Powder  chest, 
plauedi 


Sale  of  powder 
prohibited  e.\eept 
iu  day  tiuio. 


Certain  (|iiautitics 
may  be  kept,  how. 


City  elerk  shall  keep 
record  of  licenses. 


City  clerk  to  call 
:Utcntion  to  this 
ordinance,  when. 


Sec.  5.  Every  person  or  Urm  licensed  to  sell  gunpowder, 
as  is  provided  in  the  preceding  section,  shall  have  a  sign 
painted  in  capital  letters,  with  the  words  "licensed  to  keep 
and  sell  gunpowder,"  and  placed  as  therein  directed;  and 
shall  also  have  and  keep  a  snitable  copper,  tin,  or  zinc  chest, 
marked  in  front  with  the  w^ord  "gunpowder,"  which  chest 
shall  be  approved  by  the  fire  marshal  aforesaid,  and  the  same 
shall  be  made  with  two  strong  handles,  with  a  tight  lid  or 
cover,  with  hinges,  and  secured  with  a  padlock  and  key. 
which  key  shall  be  of  copper  or  brass.  Said  chest  shall 
always  be  kept  locked,  except  when  open  to  put  in  or  take 
out  powder,  which  shall  be  done  as  speedily  as  may  be  con- 
sistent with  proper  care ;  shall  be-  placed  on  the  lower  floor, 
at  the  right  side  of,  and  Avithin  six  feet  of  the  principal  door 
or  entrance  from  the  street,  over  Avhich  the  sign  before 
mentioned  is  placed;  and  shall  not  l)e  kept  in  any  other  part 
of  the  building,  unless  by  permission  of  the  Court  of  Com- 
mon Council,  which  permission  shall  be  expressed  in  the 
license;  and  no  gunpowder  shall  be  sold  or  exhibited  lor  sale 
except  by  daylight. 

Sec.  ().  Every  person  or  Arm  wliu  may  be  liceiised  and 
provided,  as  aforesaid,  may  be  allowed  to  keep  a  (piantity  of 
gunpowder,  not  exceeding  three  cpiarter-casks  of  twenty-five 
pounds  each,  which  shall  be  deposited  in  the  chest  described 
in  section  fifth ;  each  cask  shall  be  kept  in  a  leather  bag. 
closely  tied,  as  is  j^rovided  in  section  third,  and  such  person 
or  firm  may  be  allowed  to  keep  such  additional  (quantities  as 
may  be  rec|uired  for  retailing,  not  exceeding  at  any  one  time, 
twenty-five  pounds,  and  the  same  shall  be  kept  iu  tin  or  cop- 
per canisters,  and  these  kept  in  the  chest  with  the  above] 
named  quarter-casks. 

Sec.  7.  The  city  clerk  shall  keej)  a  record  of  all  licenses j 
granted,  and  rencAvals  thereof,  and  of  the  place  designated  in^ 
each  license,  for  keeping  and  selling  gunpowder,  which  place 
shall  not  be  altered  or  changed  without  the  consent  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Council,  expressed  in  such  license,  and  the 
city  clerk  at  the  time  of  recording  the  same  shall  call  the 


GTTNPOWPER.  239 

attention  of  each  dealer  licensed  to  this  ordinance,  tliat  all 
persons  concerned  may  be  dnly  informed  thereof 

Sec.  8.     All  gnnpowder,  which  shall  be  k-ept.  had.  or  pos-  ^,«';'(^^^„["rt'nkS^^ 
sessed  within  the  City  of  Hartford,  or  l)roni>:ht  into,  or  trans- 
ported through  the  same,  contrary  to  the  proYisions  of  this  — _ 

ordinance,  shall  be  forfeited,  and  may  be  seized  and  taken 

into  custody  by  the  fire  marshal  of  said  city,  and  it  shall  be 

his  duty  to  seize  the  same,  and  the  same  shall   be  libelled  J!:^o'nruTf'' 

within  ten  days  next  after  the  seizure  thereof,  by  filing  in  the 

office  of  the  clerk  of  the  City  C-ourt  of  the  City  of  TTartford. 

a  libel,  stating  the  time,  place,  and  cause  of  such  seizure,  and 

the  estimated  value  of  said  propert}^,  a  copy  of  which  libel, 

together  with  a  summons  to  the  person  or  persons  therein 

named,  to  appear  before  the  court  having  cognizance  of  the 

offence,  which  summons  may  be  signed  by  any  Justice  of  the 

peace  in  the  county  of  TTartford,  and  shall  be  served  on  the 

person  or  pei'sons  in  whose  custody  or  possession  such  gun-  J^*,'towhonT^''^"' 

powdor  may  be  seized,  if  such  person  be  an  inhal)itant  of  the 

State  of  Connecticut,  or  with  the  occujmnt  of  the  premises 

there  the  seizure  is  made,  or  the  person  in  charge  of  such 
)wder,  if  seized  on  any  vehicle,  by  delivering  a  copy  thereof  sonice  ot  ubei. 
such  person  or  ])ersons,  or  by  leaving  a  coj^y  at  his,  her,  or 
their  usual  place  of  abode,  at  least  twelve  days  before  the 
sitting  of  the  court  to  which  the  same  is  made  returnable, 
that  such  person  or  persons  may  a])pear  and  show  cause  why 
said  gunpow^der,  so  seized  and  taken,  shall  not  be  adjudged 
forfeited.     And  in  case  the  said  court  shall  find  the  allega-  foSK'to'''' 
tions  of  the  libel  true,  they  shall  adjudge  that  so  much  of  the  hiTauic  u! u,"  o^v 
powder  as  does  not  exceed  the  value  of  fifty  dollars,  shall  be 
forfeited  to  the  city,  and  shall  cause  the  same  to  be  sold,  and 
the  avails  to  be  paid  into  the  hands  of  the  treasurer  of  the 
city,  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  said  city,  deducting  therefrom 
the  costs  of  ]n'osecution,  if  the  same  are  not  otherwise  col- 
lectible.    And  the  court  shall  have  power,  at  their  discretion,  P'l"''*'"*?'"^"'''^' 

i  '  '  jiuiginent  tor  costs, 

to  render  judgment  for  costs  against  any  or  all  of  the  parties  ""'"'"■ 
cited  to  appear,  or  appearing  in  said  cause.     And  such  libel 
or  summons,  and  also  such  writ  of  execution  for  costs,  may 


240  GUNPOWDER. 

be  served  and  executed  by  any  officer  competent  to  execute 
civil  process  in  like  cases. 
Citation;  how  ^EC.  9.     Aud  iu  casc  the  fire  marshal  makino-  such  seizure 

directed  in  pertain  O 

''*'^'"  shall,  at  the  time  of  filing  said  libel,  insert  therein  an  allega- 

tion, that  he  is  ignorant  of  the  name  and  residence  of  the 
person  or  persons  in  whose  custody  or  possession,  or  upon 
whose  premises,  such  powder  was  found,  or  the  person  to 
whom  said  powder  belongs,  then  the  citation  shall  be  directed 
"to  all  persons  whom  it  may  concern,"  and  shall  be  published 
at  least  two  several  times  in  a  newspaper  printed  in  the  City 
of  Hartford,  the  last  publication  to  be  at  least  six  days  pre- 
vious to  the  session  of  the  court  at  which  the  same  is  to  be 
heard,  or  to  which  it  may  be  returnable,  which  publication 
shall  be  sufficient  notice  to  bring  the  case  to  trial,  and  any 
person  shall  have  a  right  to  appear  and  be  made  a  party  to 
the  proceedings. 

Rescue  of  gun.  Sec.  10.     Anv  pcrsou  or  persons,  Avho  shall  rescue,  or  at- 

powder  seized,  Imw  #/     1  1  '  ' 

punished.  tempt  to  rescue,  any  gunpowder  seized  as  aforesaid,  or  shall 

aid  or  assist  therein,  or  who  shall  counsel  or  advise,  or  pro- 
cure the  same  to  be  done,  or  who  shall  molest,  hinder,  or  ob- 
struct the  fire  marshal  in  such  seizure,  or  in  conveying  gun- 
powder so  seized  to  a  place  of  safety,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a 
fine,  for  each  offence,  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  and  not  ex- 
ceeding fifty  dollars,  to  the  City  of  Hartford,  for  the  use  of 
nuty^"^r  per'jons  to  thc  clty  treasur3\  And  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  all  ])er- 
niarshai.  ^^^^^  ^^  ^^l^j  ^^^^l  j^ggjg^  sucli  firc  uiarshal  in   executing  the 

duties  hereby  required. 
Fire  marshal;  Sec.  11.     That  tlic  firc  uiarshal,  at  all  suitable  times,  may 

powers  aud  duties  * 

gunpowdtir""  *"  enter  any  store  or  place  of  any  person  or  persons  licensed  to 
sell  gunpowder,  to  ascertain  if  the  laws  and  regulations 
thereof  are  strictly  observed,  and  on  an  alarm  of  fire  in  the 
vicinity,  may  cause  the  gunpowder  there  deposited  to  be 
removed  to  a  place  of  safety,  or  to  be  destroyed  by  water,  or 
otherwise,  as  the  case  ma,y  require,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  ol* 

.Shall  roiiort  viola.    Said  fircuiarshal  to  report  to  the  city  attorney  all  violations 


I 


tion  of  this  ordi 
nance  to 
attorney 


nance  to  city         ^j-  ^jj|^  ordiuaucc  whlch  may  come  within  his  knowledge. 


Damages  1.T injuries      Sec.  12.     Auv  porsou  wlio  uiav  suffcr  injury  of  person  or 

from  gunpowder,  *^     -^  *  .^        ./  j 

who  liable  tbr.       propcrty,  b}^  the  explosion  of  gun])owder.  liad.  kept  or  trans- 


GUNPOWDER.  241 

ported  within  the  City  of  Hartford,  or  the  jurisdiction  thereof, 
contrary  to  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance,  may  have  an 
action  on  the  case,  in  any  court  proper  to  try  the  same, 
against  the  owner  or  owners  of  such  gunpowder,  at  the  time 

of  the  explosion  thereof,  to  recover  reasonable  damages  for  _ 

the  injury  thus  sustained. 

Sec.  13.  Any  person  or  persons  who  shall  violate  any  of  J^oi^^^i^i^^  «f  f  ^^ 
the  provisions  of  this  ordinance,  or  who  shall  suifer  any  gun-  p""'""'*'^- 
powder  to  be  or  remain  on  the  premises  owned  or  occupied 
by  him  or  them,  contrary  to  the  provisions  of  the  same,  in 
addition  to  the  forfeiture  of  the  gunpowder,  as  aforesaid,  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  to  the  City  of  Hartford  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
twenty-five  cents,  nor  more  than  one  dollar,  for  each  pound 
of  gunpowder  over  the  amount  of  twenty-five  pounds,  so  kept, 
transported,  received  or  suffered  to  remain. 

Sec.  14.     I^o  person  shall  sell  to  any  child  under  the  age  saie  of  toy  pistols, 

•*•  1/  cj      g(g_^  regulated, 

of  sixteen  years,  without  the  consent  of  the  parent  or  guar- 
dian of  such  child,  any  cartridge  or  fixed  ammunition,  of 
which  any  fulminate  is  a  component  part,  or  any  gun,  pistol, 
or  other  mechanical  contrivance  arranged  for  the  explosion  of 
such  cartridge  or  of  any  fulminate. 

Sec.  15.     Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provis-  peuaity. 
ions  of  the  foregoing  section  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty 
to  the  City  of  Hartford,  for  the  use  of  the  city,  of  not  ex- 
ceeding fifty  dollars  for  each  offence. 

Sec.  16.     Every  license  hereafter  granted  for  the  sale  of  p'cense  to  conform 

«/  o  to  foregoing 

gunpowder  shall  conform  to  the  foregoing  provisions,  and  p'"'''""""''- 
contain  or  have  printed  thereon  the  last  two  foregoing  sec- 
tions or  the  substance  thereof 


242  PUBLIC   PARKS. 


CHAPTEE  IX. 


PUBLIC  PARKS. 


Board  of  park  commissioners,  how  con- 
stituted. 
Terms  of  office. 
Commissioners,  duty  of. 
Park  improvements,  how  authorized. 


Rules,  how  made  public. 
May  make  repairs. 
Accounts,  how  kept. 
Expenses,  how  paid. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Comynon  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford  : 

Board  of  park  com-       Section  1.     ThcrG  shall  continue  to  be  a  board  of  park 

missioners,  how 

onfflce.*^' '""*'"■""'  commissioners^  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  consisting  of  five 
electors  of  said  city,  and  each  commissioner  shall  hold  his 
office  for  five  years,  and  until  his  successor  is  appointed  and 
qualified,  and  upon  the  expiration  of  the  present  term  of 
office  of  each  of  said  commissioners  his  successor  shall  be 
appointed  for  the  full  term  of  five  years  next  succeeding,  and 
until  his  successor  is  appointed  and  qualified. 

Powers  and  duties        Sec.  2.     Said  board  shall  have  the  care  and  management  of 

of  Iward.  ° 

all  matters  relating  to  any  of  the  public  parks  of  said  city, 

and  to  the  improvement  and  adornment  of  the  same,  and  may 

May  make  rules  and  makc  such  Tulcs  aud  rcgulatious  for  the  management  thereof, 

regulations. 

and  the  government  of  all  persons  visiting  the  same,  not 
inconsistent  with  the  laws  of  the  state  or  ordinances  of  the 
city,  as  they  shall  think  proper,  and  every  person  who  shall 

Penalty,  vlolatc  any  of  the  rules  or  regulations  made  by  the  commisJI 

sioners  for  the  purpose  aforesaid  shall  forfeit  and  pay  for  the 
use  of  the  city  treasury  a  fine  not  exceeding  thirty-five  dollars. 

Regulations  shall  be      Sec.  3.     It  shall  bc  thc  duty  of  the  park  commissioners  toal 

made  jiuMic,  how.  11 

cause  all  rules  or  regulations  so  made  by  them  relating  to  the 
government  of  the  persons  visiting  any  of  said  parks,  to  be -J 
plainly  printed  with  the  penalties  attached  thereto,  and  to  beU 
kept  conspicuously  posted  up  in  proper  places  on  the  parks 
to  which  they  relate,  while  the  same  shall  continue  in  force 
or  relate  thereto. 

1  For  appointment  of  park  commissioners  see  page  53. 


PUBLIC  PARKS.  243 


Sec.  4.     Whenever  the  park  commissioners  of   said  city  ^^^^"tl^t^^^'^pjXit. 
shall  think  it  desirable  or  expedient  to  make  any  alteration  cou^iuorTp^oTai. 
or  improvement  in  any  of  the  public  parks  of  the  city,  it 
shall  be  their  duty  to  submit  to  the  Court  of  Common  Coun- 
cil a  plan  or  written  description  of  such  improvement  or  alter-  

ation,  accompanied  by  an  estimate  of  the  cost  of  the  same. 
If  the  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  approve  of  the  altera- 
tion or  improvement  submitted  as  aforesaid,  and  shall  appro- 
priate the  amount  of  money  necessary  for  the  completion  of 
the  same,  said  park  commissioners  shall  then  be  authorized  pr'^o'ccSTwhei!  ""''^ 
to  proceed  and  make  such  alteration  or  improvement  by  con- 
tract, or  Otherwise,  as  to  them  shall  seem  most  expedient. 

Sec  5.     Nothina'  in  the  forefifoins;  section  shall  be  so  con-  commissioners  may 

o  o  o  make  uecessary 

strued  as  to  prevent  said  park  commissioners  from  making,  '"'"''*"'"* 
at  any  time,  any  and  all  necessary  repairs  of  the  walks,  drives, 
or  mechanical  structures  connected  with'  any  of  the  public 
parks  of  said  city. 

Sec.  6.     The  park  commissioners  shall  keep  an  account  of  s^*^i''<^*^r  accounts. 
all  expenditures  made  in  their  department,  which  shall  be 
open  at  all  times  to  the  inspection  of  any  member  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Council,  and  shall  make  a  report  to  said  fepon'to'cortT^ 
fcourt  of  such  expenditures,  at  least  once  a  month,  unless  ex- 
cused therefrom  by  said  court. 

Sec.  7.    'No  pay  shall  be  allowed  either  of  said  commis-  K'paidbycuyf ' 
sioners  for  any  services  rendered  by  him,  but  his  necessary 
expenses   and   disbursements   shall   bo   paid   from   the   city 
treasury. 


244 


NUISANCES   RELATING   TO    HIGHWAYS. 


CHAPTEE  X. 


NUISANCES  EELATING  TO  HIGHWAYS. 


Power  of  executive  officers  to  prevent 

obstructions. 
What  nuisances  of  the  first  class. 
What  nuisances  of  the  second  class. 
What  nuisances  of  the  third  class. 
What  nuisances  of  the  fourth  class. 
Penalties. 
Ashes,  sweepings,  and  rubbish,  how  de 

posited  and  removed. 


Penalty. 

Sidewalks,  how  cleared. 

Penalty. 

Licenses  of  common  council,  and  board 

of  street  commissioners,  endangering 

public  travel,  how  given. 
Disturbing  the  peace  and  defacing  public 

buildings,  etc.,  how  punished. 


Executive  and 
police  officers  to 
keep  streets  and 
public  places  free  of 
obstructious. 


Nuisances  of  the 
first  class. 


Privy,  when  a 
nuisance. 


Removal  of 
buildings. 


Opening  of  streets 
or  alleys. 


Depositing  mate- 
rials in  highway. 


Opening  of  vaults  or 
cellars. 


Opening  of  drains. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford : 

Section  1.  Any  executive  or  police  officer  of  the  city  shall 
have  authority  to  keep  open  and  free  from  obstruction  the 
streets  and  public  places  of  said  city,  and  to  require  all  per- 
sons unlawfully  obstructing  such  streets  and  public  places  to 
desist  therefrom  whenever  the  act  of  obstruction  is  done  in 
view  of  such  officer. 

Sec.  2.     The   following   acts   are   declared  to   be   acts  of 
nuisance  of  the  first  class;  the  keeping  or  maintaining,  omI 
using,  any  privy  within  the  distance  of  fifty  feet  from  any 
street  or  building  line  in  said  city  in  such  a  manner  as  to  be 
unwholesome   or   offensive   to   any  j^erson,   or   injurious   to 
health,  or  offensive  to  the  public ;  the  removal  of  any  build- 
ing through  any  street  or  highway  of  the  city,  or  the  permit- 
ting of  any  building  in  process  of  removal  to  remain  in  any 
such  street  or  highway  without  license  from  the  Court  ofll 
Common  Council ;  the  opening  or  keeping  open  of  any  street 
or  highway,  blind  alley,  or  thoroughfare,  within  said  city 
without  such  license ;  the  placing  or  continuing  the  deposi  Jl 
of  any  building  materials  on  any  street  or  highway  of  said 
city  without  license  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council ;  the 
opening  or  continuing  of  any  vault  or  cellar-way  in  or  upon     , 
any  street  or  highway  of  the  city  without  license  of  thejl 
board  of  street  commissioners ;  the  opening  or  continuance  of^ 
any  drain  in  such  a  manner  that  the  same  is  discharged  upon 


NUISANCES   RELATING   TO   HIGHWAYS.  245 

any  street   or  highway  of  the  city  or  other  public  place 
therein,  or  the  use  of  any  such  drain ;  the  excavation  of  any  f^^^^^^f '''°  "^ 
part  of  any  street,  highway,  or  public  place  of  said  city,  or 
digging  below  the   surface    thereof  without    authority   or 
license  of  the  board  of  street  commissioners,  and  without  also 
protecting  the  public  against  danger  therefrom  by  means  of 
fences,  lights,  and  any  other  precautions  expedient  or  neces- 
sary for  such  protection ;  racing  or  trying  the  speed  of  horses  ^''""s  "^  "<"^^'=''- 
through  or  upon  any  street  or  highway  of  said  city,  or  other 
public  place  therein;    resisting,   molesting,    disobeying    or  ^^^J^J^p^^-j?^^^^^^^^^^ 
interfering  with  any  executive  or  police  officer,  or  the  board 
of  street  commissioners  of  said  city,  while  engaged  in  the 
duty  of  keeping  the  streets,  or  highways,  or  public  places  of 
said  city,  free  from  obstruction  and  convenient  for  public  use ; 
injuring  any  tree  or  shrubbery  placed  or  kept  as  an  ornament  sKs'^''*''"^"'* 
to  any  of  the  streets,  highways,  or  public  places  of  the  city ; 
the  erection  or  location  of  any  building,  or  part  of  a  building, 
or  the  continuance  of  any  building  so  erected  or  located  upon 
any  street,  highway,  or  public  place  of  said  city ;  the  erection 
or  location  or  continuance  of  any  structure,  building,  or  part  binding unJ!'  "'^"" 
of  a  building,  or  any  appurtenance  thereof,  or  obscuring  the 
prospect,  between  any  building-line  lawfully  established,  upon 
any  street  or  highway  and  the  line  of  such  street  or  highway. 

Sec.  3.     The  following  acts   are   declared  to   be   acts   of  SlfdXs! 
nuisance  of  the  second  class;  the  carrying  on  of  any  trade  or  S'businlsTo?''^'^^ 
business  upon  the  sidewalks,  or  streets,  or  highways  of  said  ^'*^'"'''"- 
city,  without  license  of  the  board  of  street  commissioners; 
the  defacing  or  injuring  of  any  fence,  rail,  chain,  lamp  or  post,  ^^*^^in'ftr''eeior*''^' 
Avithin  any  street,  highway,  or  public  place  of  said  city ;  driv-  ^"*'''°  ^'^°" 
ing  or  riding  in  or  through  any  street,,  high  way,  or  public  J>;ivn.g^at.g^rea^^^^ 
]3lace  of  said  city,  at  a  greater  rate  of  speed  than  six  miles  an  ^^^  ''*'"'^" 
hour ;  drawing  or  using  any  sled  or  any  wheel  vehicle,  pro- 
pelled by  hand  or  otherwise,  or  the  drawing  or  propelling  of  ^""^^naus  ou"^" 
any  engine,  or  fire  apparatus,  along  any  sidewalk  of  said  city ;  '''^'''''*'''- 
the   depositing  or  placing  of  any  rubbish  or  other  thing  ^Xou  hf  hw/"'" 
(excepting  articles  of  merchandise,  or  wares,  or  boxes,  or 
cases  for  containing  the  same)  upon  any  street  or  highway  of 
said  city,  in  such  a  manner,  or  to  such  an  extent  as  to  impede 


246  NUISANCES  RELATING  TO   HIGHWAYS. 

Injuring  grass  or     01*  causo  Inconvemeiice  to  public  travel;  mjurinff-any  grass  or 

ornameutal  herbage  ■•■  '        ./  o  ./     O 

in  public  places,  ornamental  herbage  within  any  public  place  of   said  city; 

ngMng.^*"^  brawling  or  fighting  within  any  street,  highway,  or  public 

^uhoutficlnseof  pl^^®  ^f  Said  clty ;  laying  any  sidewalk  or  gutter-stone  with- 

sionlrsT""''"  out  the  license  of  the  board  of  street  commissioners. 
Nuisances  of  the         Sec,  4.     Thc  followlnff  acts   are   declared  to   be   acts  of 

third  class.  ~ 

nuisance  of  the  third  class;  the  placing  or  continuing  any 
piacingofmerchan- articles  of  traffic  Or  merchandise,  or  of  any  wares,  or  any 

disc  on  sidewalks.  '  »j  j  </ 

case  or  box  for  containing  the  same,  or  of  any  packing  boxes 

upon  any  sidewalk,  or  street,  or  highway  of  said  city,  except 

for  purposes  of  transit  or  delivery,  and  for  such  time  and  in 

such  manner  as  shall  be  reasonably  necessary  for  such  pur- 

rther'J.bnrrtlon'on  P^^^^^  j  ^hc  placlug  or  coutinuiug  of  any  post,  rail,  fence,  or 

highway.  other  obstruction,  upon  any  street,  highway,  or  public  place 

of  the  city,  without  authority  of  the  board  of  street  commis- 

piaciugbiisiuess     sloucrs ;  the  placinij^  of  any  business  sicin  within  the  limits  of 

sign  within  :>  x  o  ./  o 

highway.  ^^y  street  of  the  city  otherwise  than  parallel  to  and  against, 

or  as  near  as  is  convenient  to  the  face  of  the  building,  wall,  or 
fence,  whereunto  the  same  shall  be  attached ;  the  setting  out 

fiueot^sEaik*''"  of  any  tree  within  the  lines  of  any  sidewalk  in  the  city,  with- 
out license  of  the  board  of  street  commissioners ;  the  break- 

Breaking  of  side-    jnff  of  any  sldcwalk  or  curb-stone,  with  mischievous  intent, 

walk  with  lutcut  or  i?  ^  '  ' 

^Sng^        or  by  negligence;  permitting  any  animal  to  go  at  large,  or 
lea^viug  horir"^      Icaviug  auy  horse  unhitched,  or  permitting  any  animal  to 
stand  upon  or  over  any  crosswalk  by  the  person  having  con- 
trol at  the  time  of  such  horse  or  animal,  within  any  street  or 
thoroughfare  of  said  city ;  or  the  permitting  by  any  person  of 
Blocking  up  of       the  blocking  up  or  obstruction  of  any  street  or  thoroughfare 

street  by  vehicle.  ox  ^  o 

of  said  city,  by  any  horse,  animal  or  vehicle,  under  his  charge  m\ 
Driving  drove  aui-   Or  coutrol ;  thc  drivluff  of  any  drove  of  animals  through     ' 

mals  through  Main  7  o  ./  o 

Sbc?wccu  sunrise  Main  strcct  at  any  time  without  license  of  the  board  of  street  i 
commissioners,  or  through  any  other  street  or  highway  offll 
said  city  upon  Sunday  between  sunrise  and  sunset ;  the  firing  ■ 
or  exploding  of  any  fireworks,  cannon,  small  arms,  toy  can- 
non, firecrackers,  torpedoes  or  other  explosive  substances,  or 
making  or  keeping  up  any  bonfire  in  any  street,  highway,  or 
public  place  in  said  city,  without  permission  from  the  mayor. 
Sec.  5.     The  following   acts   are   declared   to   be   acts   of 


NUISANCES    RELATING   TO    HIGHWAYS.  247 

nuisance  of  the  fourth  class :  the  continued  keeping  of  any  Nmsance^s^or  the 
rubbish  or  other  thing  which  does  not  impede  or  cause  incon- 
venience to  public  travel,  and  which  is  not  placed  or  deposited 
for  purpose  of  transit  or  delivery,  in  or  upon  any  street,  high-  S,'^*^.o™Xgu. 

way,  or  public  place,  after  notice  to  remove  the  same,  has  "^"^ "  erno ict^ 

been  given  by  the  proper  city  authority  to  the  person  placing 
or  keeping  the  same  therein,  for  the  removal  of  such  rubbish 
or  other  thing;  the  playing  of  ball,  or  kite-flying,  in  any  such  g'^i^fj^e'stnany 
streets  or  highways;  the  driving  with  any  sled,  sledge,  or  * 
sleigh,  in  or  through  any  such  street  or  highway,  without  »rivmg  of^sieigu 
bells  attached  thereto  or  to  the  horse  drawing  the  same ;  the  ''"'''=^'''^- 
driving  of  any  goat  or  dog  in  harness  in  or  through  any  such  f/jJi^^s^dog  or  goat 
street  or  highway;  the  riding  or  driving  of  any  bicycle  in  or  Riding bicycic. 
through  any  such  street  or  highway;  the  posting  of  bills,  pla-  buS^'^ost^et^" 
cards,  or  notices,  without  legal  right,  upon  any  building^wall, 
fence,  or  post,  within  or  adjoining  any  such  street  or  thorough- 
fare; the  drawing:  or  use  of  any  hand-cart,  or  hand-sled,  or  drawing  of  sw  or 

'  O  »/  i  1  wheelbarrow  on 

wheelbarrow  upon  any  sidcAvalk  within  said  city ;  the  permit-  ''<^«^*'''- 
ting  of  any  snow  to  remain  on  the  roof  of  any  building  by  f^Tiiain  In  "oof,  in 
the  occupant  or  person  in  legal  possession  thereof  in  such  theTfrom.^^'*''"" 
condition  that  the  same  may  slide  therefrom  upon  any  street 
or  highway  of  the  city. 

Sec.  6.     Any  person  who  shall  commit,  or  aid,  advise,  abet,  SnSuisan°c™sof 

.,  ....  n  n   A^^  £>  •-!  i  n  the  several  classes. 

or  encourage  the  committing  oi  any  oi  the  aioresaid  acts  oi 
nuisance,  shall  pay  to  the  City  of  Hartford  for  the  use  of  the 
city  a  penalty  or  forfeiture  of  twenty-five  dollars,  if  such  act 
be  of  the  first  class ;  of  fifteen  dollars,  if  such  act  be  of  the 
second  class;  of  five  dollars,  if  such  act  be  of  the  third  class; 
and  of  one  dollar,  if  such  act  be  of  the  fourth  class;  and  any 
such  act  shall  be  deemed  malicious  if  repeated  or  continued  when  repetition  of 

-L  act  to  be  deemed 

after  the  person  committing  the  same  has  been  forbidden  to  '"''^'"'"''• 
repeat  or  continue  the  same.     The  continuance  of  any  ob-  Twenty-four  hours- 

-L  ♦'  continuance  of 

struction   or   encroachment   upon   any   street,   highway,  or  wafoTburid'ingifne 

a  separate  oft'ence, 

building-line,  for  a  day  of  twenty-four  hours  after  the  day  of 
the  commencement  thereof,  shall  be  deemed  a  separate  and 
single  oifence. 

Any  building  erected  or  located  in  violation  of  the  second  ^asseSfouV"''- 
section  of  this  ordinance  shall  be  assessed  at  four-fold  its  tax- 


248  NUISANCES   RELATING   TO    HIGHWAYS. 

able  value  in  the  last  list  prepared  or  next  to  be  prepared, 
according  to  law  for  the  purpose  of  laying  city  taxes  thereon. 
Whenever  anything  unlawfully  placed,  or  kept  on  any 
street  or  highway,  or  any  public  place  of  said  city,  shall  be 
removed  by  the  board  of  street  commissioners,  the  expense 
When  persons  liable  of  such  rcmoval  to  auv  amouut  not  exceedino;  fifty  dollars 

to  expense  of  remov-  «/  o  ^ 

ing obstruction.  gjiall  bc  a  dcbt  or  forfeiture  against  the  person  liable  for  such 
act  of  nuisance,  provided  that  the  board  of  street  commis- 
sioners shall  have  first  given  such  person  notice  and  reason- 
able time  to  remove  the  same ;  and  provided  that  the  amount , 

Penalty  for  fast  SO  rocovcrablc,  togcthcr  with  the  fine  or  penalty  for  such  act 
of  nuisance  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars.  If  any 
tree,  fence,  or  other  private  property  be  injured  by  any  of  the 

whonfpafr '  ^^  aforesaid  acts,  the  City  of  Hartford  shall  pay  one-half  of  the 
penalty  recovered  therefor  to  the  owner  of  such  property. 

fuZish'onpubiir'      ^^^-  '^-     ^o  ashes,  store  sweepings,  or  rubbish,  shall  be  put 

highway  prohibited.  .^^  ^^^^^  pubHc  strcct  or  highway  in  the  City  of  Hartford,  but 

where  dented''''  ^^^^^  ^®  P^^^  ^^^  sultablc  vcsscls  Or  places,  and  shall  be  removed 

in  the  manner  provided  in  the  succeeding  section, 
street  commissioner      Sec.  8.     It  shall  bc  thc  dutv  of  thc  board  of  street  commis- 

to  remove  ashes,  etc.  "^ 

sioners  to  remove  said  ashes,  store  sweepings,  and  rubbish  so 
j)ut  and  deposited,  free  of  expense  to  parties  so  depositing 
them,  whenever  it  shall  be  necessary  and  proper  for  the  same 
to  be  removed. 

Stionsof"thir'  Sec.  9.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  any  policeman  in  the  city 
to  report  any  violation  of  the  seventh  section  of  this  ordinance 
to  the  city  attorney,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  attorney 
to  prosecute  any  persons  violating  the  same. 

Penalty.  Sec.  10.     Any  person  violating  the  seventh  section  of  this 

ordinance,  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  exceeding  ten  dollars, 
together  with  costs  of  suit;  and  every  day's  continuance  of 
a  violation  thereof  shall  be  considered  a  distinct  oifence. 

What  parties  shall       Sec.  11.     Thc  owucr  or  owucrs,  occupant  or  occupants, 

clean  sidewalks  ^  -^  ' 

from  ice  and  snow,  ppiy^te  corporatiou,  or  any  person  having  the  care  of  any 
building  or  lot  of  land  bordering  on  any  streert,  square,  or 
public  place  within  the  city  where  there  is  a  sidewalk  graded 

Shall  remove  same  Or  graded  aud  pavcd,  shall  cause  to  be  removed  therefrom 

within  two  hours  '^  ■*•  ' 

after  falling.         ^^y  ^^^  j^l^  suow,  sleet,  aud  ice,  within  two  hours  after  the 


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NUISANCES    RELATIN(^    TO    HIGHWAYS.  249 

same  shall  have  fallen,  been  deposited  or  found,  or  within 
three  hours  after  sunrise,  when  the  same  shall  have  fallen  in 
the  night  season. 

Sec.  12.     Whenever   the   sidewalk,    or   any   part  thereof, 

adjoining  or  fronting  any  building  or  lot  of  land,  or  any  street, 

square,  or  public  place,  shall  be  covered  with  ice,  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  owner  or  owners,  occupant  or  occupants,  pri- 
vate corporation  or  any  person  having  the  care  of  such  build- 
ing or  lot,  to  cause  such  sidewalk  to  be  made  safe  and  con-  ciJane^dor^lov^o? 
venient  by  removing  the  ice  therefrom,  or  by  covering  ^j^^  ^  "'"' '''''• 
same  with  sand  or  some  other  suitable  substance,  and  in  case 
such  owner  or  owners,  or  other  person  shall  neglect  so  to  do, 
for  the  space  of  one  hour,  during  the  day-time,  the  person  or 
persons  whose  legal  duty  it  shall  be  to  so  clear  said  walk,  and 
so  neglecting  shall  be  liable  to  the  penalty  named  in  the  sue-  Penalty. 
ceeding  section. 

Sec.  13.  The  owner  or  owners,  occujDant  or  occupants, 
private  corporation,  or  any  person  having  •  the  care  of  any 
building  or  lot  of  land,  and  whose  duty  it  is  to  clear  the  same, 
who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  the  eleventh  or  penalty  for  violation 

•'J-  of  the  eleventli  and 

twelfth  sections  of  this  ordinance,  or  refuse  or  neglect  to  '^^'■'"'''^^''"°"^- 
comply  with  the  same,  shall  pay  a  penalty  of  two  dollars  for 
every  twelve  hours  such  person,  owner  or  owners,  occupant 
or  occupants,  shall  neglect  to  comply  with  said  provisions,  or 
any  of  them,  after  notice  from  any  policeman  of  said  city. 

Sec.  14.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  police  force,  under  the  pouce  shaii  enforce 

•^  -••  '  sections  eleven  and 

direction  of  the  chief  of  police,  to  have  sections  eleven  and  *'"''"'■ 
twelve  of  this  ordinance  strictly  enforced,  and  to  forthwith 
collect  all  penalties  incurred  under  the  same,  upon  a  written 
or  printed  order  of  the  chief  of  police,  and  if  any  person 
shall  neglect  to  pay  upon  demand  the  penalty  uj)on  such  ^e°nai?'^how  t^^ 
order,  the  chief  of  police  shall  report  the  case  to  the  city  p'""*''"^- 
attorney,  who  shall,  if  he  deem  proper,  immediately  prosecute 
the  person  or  private  corporation  so  offending. 

Sec.  15.     The  chief  of  police  shall  cause  an  abstract  of  sec-  cMefof  ponceshaii 

cause  abstract  of 

tions  eleven,  twelve,  and  thirteen  of  this  ordinance,  to  be  ^6^10  bJpub* 
published  in  two  or  more  Hartford  daily  papers  once  a  week 
during  the  month  of  December,  in  each  year,  and  he  shall 


250  NUISANCES   RELATING    TO    HIGHWAYS. 

also  publish,  in  one  or  more  Hartford  daily  papers,  at  the 
commencement  of  each  winter  season,  such  regulations  rela- 
tive to  the  enforcement  of  sections  eleven  and  twelve  of  this 
ordinance  not  inconsistent  with  the  laws  of  the  state,  or  ordi- 
nances of  the  city,  as  he  shall  deem  proper. 
City  sidewalks  to  be      Sec.  16.     It  shall  bc  thc  duty  of  the  board  of  street  com- 

cleaned  by  board  of  '' 

sioners.*""""'""       missioucrs  to  cause  to  be  cleared  in  accordance  with  the  pro- 
visions of  sections  eleven  and  twelve  of  this  ordinance  all 
sidewalks  properly  belonging  to  the  City  of  Hartford,  and  not 
adjoining  the  land  of  private  individuals  or  private  corpora- 
tions, except  such  sidewalks  as  are  in  special  charge  of  other 
Sn^wafk^^of'whkh  ^^*y  officials,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  city  officers  to 
they  have  charge.    ^^^^^  ^^  jj^  clcarcd  lu  accordaucc  with  the  provisions  of  said 
sections,  all  sidewalks  fronting  on  land  under  their  official 
charge,  and  said  board  of  street  commissioners,  and  other  city 
?amefentufes*as    officlals,  shall  bc  pcrsoually  liable  to  the  same  penalties  for 
other  persons.        ^^^  ncglcct  in  relatiou  to  the  walks  so  under  their  official 

charge,  that  private  persons  are  for  a  like  offence. 
When  sidewalk  may      gEC.  17.     If  auv  sldcwalk  shall  remain  encumbered  with 

bo  cleaned  by  order  "^ 

Of  Chief  of  police.  ^^^^^^  -^^^  ^^  ^j^^^^  for  twcuty-four  hours  after  the  same  has 
fallen,  or  been  deposited,  the  chief  of  police  shall  notify  the 
owner  or  person  having  the  charge  or  care  of  the  lot  or 
building  bordering  on  such  sidewalk,  and  legally  liable  to 
clear  the  same,  and  if  such  sidewalk  is  not  thoroughly  cleared 
or  properly  covered  Avith  sand  or  some  other  suitable  sub- 
stance within  twenty-four  hours  after  such  notice  shall  have 
been  given,  the  chief  of  police  shall  cause  the  same  to  be 

Kingmaj^be^  clcarcd  Or  properly  covered  and  collect  the  expense  thereof 
owner.  ^^  ^^ioh  owucr,  or  other  persons,  and  the  city  attorney  shall, 
at  the  request  of  the  chief  of  police,^  collect  by  suit  such 
expense  as  a  debt  due  the  city. 

Authority  under         Sec.  18.     All  liccuses  of  thc  Court  of  Common  Council,  or 

licenses. 

board  of  street  commissioners,  to  do  any  act  whereby  public 
travel  may  be  incommoded  or  endangered,  shall  authorize  the 
pai-ty  licensed  to  do  such  acts  in  no  other  than  a  prudent  and 
careful  manner;  and  such  licenses  shall  be  subject,  in  all 
Party  liable  to  dam-  cascs,  to  thc  conditlous,  that  the  person  to  whom  the  same  is 

ages  for  injuries.  '  ■*  -•- 

granted  shall  be  liable  to  any  part}^  who  shall  receive  action- 


NUISANCES   INJURIOUS   TO   HEALTH.  251 

able  injuiy  by  the  doing  of  such  act,  for  such  injury,  and  shall 
also  be  liable  to  indemnify  and  reimburse  the  city  by  reason 
of  the  doing  of  such  act;  and  such  condition  shall  be  obliga- 
tory without  other  notice  than  that  to  be  implied  from  this 
ordinance  upon  any  person  who  shall  receive  such  license. 

Sec.  19.  Any  occupant  of  any  house  or  building  who  shall  JuarremlLeS""'" 
permit  any  number  of  persons  to  assemble  therein,  and  by 
indecent  or  disorderly  conduct,  or  by  quarreling  or  fighting, 
or  by  excessive  or  undue  noise  of  any  kind  whereby  the 
l^cace  and  quiet  of  his  or  her  neighbors  shall  be  disturbed, 
shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  of  not  exceeding  twenty-five 
dollars. 

Sec.  20.     Any  person  who  shall  wantonly  deface  or  injure  ^y^f^^"  |*te"how 
any  public  building  in  said  city,  or  other  inclosurc  of  the  p""'"*""^- 
same,  or  commit  any  trespass  in  any  garden,  cemetery,  or 
inclosure  therein,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  of  not  exceeding 
fifty  dollars. 


CHAPTER  XI. 


NUISANCES  INJURIOUS  TO  HEALTH. 


Health  committee,  how  constituted  and 

appointed. 
Duties  of. 

Notices  by,  how  given. 
Violation   of  various  provisions,   how 

punished. 
Privies,  how  constructed. 
Slaughter  houses  regulated. 


Night  soil,  how  removed. 
Stagnant  water,  how  removed. 
Disobeying  orders  of  health  committee, 

how  punished. 
Owners  of  buildings  to  provide  privies. 
Throwing  various  substances  into  Park 

river  prohibited. 
Sale  of  veal  regulated. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford : 

Section  1.     The  Court  of  Common  Council  shall,  annually,  howcSnTtuteTaM 
appoint  not  exceeding  ten  persons,  to  be  denominated  the  "pp"'"^**- 
health  committee,  whose  duty  it  shall  be,  at  the  expense  of 
the  city,  to  cause  all  matters  and  things  which  are  or  shall  be, 
by  any  ordinance  of  this  city,  relating  to  health,  and  declared 


removal  of  tilth. 


Orders  of,  how 
given. 


252  NUISANCES   INJURIOUS   TO    HEALTH. 

to  be  nuisances  or  prohibited,  to  be  removed  or  suppressed, 
and  from  time  to  time  report  all  violations  thereof  to  the  city 
attorney,  that  the  same  may  be  prevented  or  abated;   and 

Duties  of  oommittce.  g^id  commlttce  shall  cause  the  public  streets  and  all  wharves 
and  landing  places  to  be  frequently  and  carefully  inspected 
and  purified  from  filth  and  animal  and  vegetable  putrefaction, 
at  the  expense  of  the  city ;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said 

member"  may  order  committce,  aud  auy  two  of  them  are  hereby  empowered  to 
inspect,  as  often  as  they  shall  deem  necessary,  all  slaughter 
houses,  tanneries,  tallow  chandleries,  soap  boilers,  curriers' 
shops  or  works,  and  all  other  places  in  said  city,  and  if  they 
shall  find  filth  or  putrefaction  in  any  shop  or  place  by  them 
visited,  which  in  their  opinion  may  prove  detrimental  to  the 
health  of  the  inhabitants  of  this  city,  said  committee  or  any 
two  of  them,  if  they  shall  be  a  majority  of  the  committee 
present,  shall  give  orders  to  the  person  or  persons  owning  or 

toect"'*^''""'''  occupying  said  shop  or  place  in  which  said  filth  or  putrefac- 
tion shall  be  found,  for  the  removing  or  burying  of  said 
filth  or  putrefaction,  or  for  cleansing  or  purifying  said  shop 
or  place  in  such  other  Avay  or  manner  as  such  comuaittee  or 
such  two  of  them,  as  aforesaid,  there  present,  may  deem 
advisable;  and  the  said  committee  or  such  two  of  them,  as 
aforesaid,  are  hereby  empowered  to  give  orders  to  the  person 
or  persons  owning  or  occupying  said  shops  or  places,  in  rela- 
tion to  the  ways  and  means  to  be  by  them  used  for  keeping 
the  same  continually  cleansed  and  purified  from  filth  and 
putrefaction,  and  all  orders  and  directions  which  shall  be 

orders  of  committee  jrivcu  bv  Said  committcc  or  such  two  of  them,  as  aforesaid, 

to  be  in  writing.  o  ./  .  J 

shall  be  in  writing,  under  their  hands,  a  duplicate  of  Av^hich 
Dui.iicate  of  order    thc  Said  committec,  or  the  members  who  shall  sio-n  the  same. 

to  be  lodged  with  '  ~ 

clerk  of  City  Court.  ^|^^|i^  immediately  after  delivery  of  said  orders  and  directions 
to  such  person  or  persons,  lodge  with  the  clerk  of  the  City 
Court;  and  every  such  person  who  shall  neglect  to  obey  and 
conform  to  any  of  the   orders   or  directions,    or   any  part 

fompiiaifcewuh  thcrcof,  SO  givcu  by  said  committee,  or  any  two  of  them,  in 
conformity  to  any  ordinance  of  this  city,  shall  forfeit  and  j^ay: 
a  fine  not  exceeding  ten  dollars  for  every  day  that  such 
person  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  comply  therewith. 


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NUISANCES   INJURIOUS   TO   HEALTH.  253 

Sec.  2.     Any  person  who  shall,  without  permission  of  the  J^^'^'^^SIS 
Court  of  Common  Council,  build  or  set  up,  within  the  limits  Cul^eXmmoa''^ 

couucil. 

of  this  city,  any  kiln  or  furnace  for  burning  or  baking  any 
stone  or  earthenware,  or  other  pottery,  brick  or  tile,  or  any 

distillery,  or  shall  build  or  assist  in  building  any  fire  in  any  -^ _ 

such  kiln  or  furnace,  or  distillery,  or   shall  engage  in   the  Brick  mu^. 
manufacture  or  refining  of  kerosene  or  other  oil,  or  set  up  or  Distnierks. 
use  any  gas  house  or  gas  manufactory,  or  erect  or  use  any  Refining  ous. 
building  for  making  or  boiling  varnish,  or  blacksmith  shop.  Gas  house, 
potter's  shop,  tallow  chandler's  shop,  or  for  boiling  soap,  or  Taiiow  chandlers, 
for  rendering  tallow,  or  for  tanning  leather  or  skins,  or  for  Tannery. 
receiving  or  storing  green  hides  or  skins,  or  for  any  similar 
purpose,  or  keep  or  suffer  to  be  kept  in  any  building  or  place 
in  this  city,  any  guano,  or  other  land  fertilizer,  or  shall  use  G"*'^''- 
any  building  or  lot  of  ground  for  a  vinegar  yard,  or  set  up  or  vinegar  yard. 
carry  on  either  of  said  kinds  of  business  in  said  city,  or  shall 
engage  in  any  business  which  shall  be  prejudicial  to  public  ^S'to health"''''" 
health,  without  such  permission,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  p"""^""'""^- 
of  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  and  a  further  fine  of  not  exceed-  Penalty. 
ing  twenty  dollars  for  every  week  the  same  shall  be  so  used 

—or  continued. 

y>    Sec.  3.     The  keeping  of  swine  in  any  stye  or  pen,  or  other  ^g^foYi^iJ^^"' 
place  in  this  city  in  such  a  manner  as  to  become  unwhole- 
some or  offensive  to  any  person ;  the  casting  of  filth  of  any 
kind  in  or  upon  any  street,  sidewalk,  highway,  private  way,  F^th  i"  highway. 
green  or  park  in  this  city ;  the  carrying  of  any  pail  or  vessel 
of  swill  on  or  along  any  sidewalk,  in  said  city;  any  dung, 
filth,  manure,  offal,  wash,  dirty  Avater,  or  brine,  or  any  rub- Fiuh,  oiiai,  etc. 
bish  accumulated  in  any  building,  yard,   out-house,  or  en- 
closure, so  as  to  be  offensive:  any  privy  now  set  up,  or  that  privies, how .et up 

'  ^  ./     X  ^  X  }  and  arranged. 

shall  hereafter  be  set  up,  without  having  a  vault  under  it  made 
and  sunk  in  the  earth  to  the  depth  of  six  feet,  and  of  the 
length  and  width  of  said  privy,  or  such  tight  boxes  as  shall 
be  approved  by  at  least  two  members  of  the  health  commit-  to  be  approved  by  at 

■'■■'•  *^  least  two  members 

tee,  or  without  having  the  contents  of  said  privy  carried  off' °^*^"''*''' *=""''"'"'''"• 
by  such  suitable  drains  as  shall  be  approved  by  at  least  two 
members  of  the  health  committee;  the  dressing  or  cleaning  Dressing  of  osh. 
fish  in  any  public  place  in  this  city,  except  on  the  margin 


254  NUISANCES   INJURIOUS   TO   HEALTH. 

of  Connecticut  river,  at  the  foot  of  Ferry  street,  or  below 
low  water  mark  upon  Connecticut  or  Mill  rivers;   bathing 

puwic"prohibiUd.  naked  at  any  public  place  in  said  city,  outside  of  any  building, 
not  designated  by  the  mayor ;  the  permitting  wash  or  dirty 
water  to  pass  from  yards  or  houses  into  the  streets,  or  the 
permitting  the  same  to  be  thrown  into  the  streets;  the 
obstructing  oi*  altering  the  course  of  any  stream  or  run  of 
water  therein ;  and  each  and  every  one  of  said  acts  shall  be 

Penalty.  docmcd  a  nuisance;  and  every  person  who  shall  do  the  same, 

or  aid  and  assist  therein,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  of  not 
exceeding  thirty  dollars  for  each  offence. 

Erection  of  out-door      Sec.  4.     Auv  Dcrsou  who  shall  erect  any  out-door  privy 

privy,  on  laud  "^      ■•■  -^  i  '^       « 

KngVsewe?!  u^ou  laud  froutlug  upon  any  street  in  this  city  containing  a 
sewer,  without  first  obtaining  the  consent  and  permission  of 
the  health  committee,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  the  sum  of  ten 
dollars  to  the  City  of  Hartford,  for  the  use  of  the  city  treas- 
ury; and  the  further  sum  of  not  more  than  ten  dollars  for 
every  week  that  such  building  shall  remain  without  such 
permission.  And  it  is  hereby  provided  that  the  continuance 
of  any  such  building  without  such  permission  shall,  for  each 
week  after  such  act,  be  deemed  a  separate  and  single  offence. 

maybeoc'cupieTby       ^^^'  ^-     "^^7  pcrsou  who  shall,  wlthout  permission  of  the 

permission,  w  en.  Qq^^-^,^  ^f  Couimou  Couucil,  occupy  or  use  any  building  or 
other  place  in  the  city  as  a  slaughter  house,  or  place  to 
slaughter  animals;  or  who  shall  neglect  to  wash  and  thor- 
oughly cleanse  such  slaughter  house  once  each  and  every  day 

Penalty.  thc  samc  shall  be  so  occupied,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  of 

five  dollars  for  each  day  said  building  or  place  shall  be  so 
used  or  remain  uncleaned. 

Contents  of  privies       Sec.  6.     Auv  pcrsou  who   shall   remove   or   cause  to   be 

not  to  be  removed  "^      ■■• 

mSon7  ^^''  removed,  without  j^ermission  of  at  least  two  members  of  the 
health  committee,  the  contents  of  any  privy  vault  or  box, 
exce2)t  in  the  night  season,  and  in  a  tight  box,  between  the 
hours  of  eleven  o'clock  in  the  evening  and  five  o'clock  in  the 

When  removal  to  be  mominii;,  aud  between  the  first  days  of  November  and  the 

made,  and  how.  ~'  •/ 

first  days  of  April,  or  shall  deposit  the  contents  of  any  privy 
vault  or  box,  Avithin  the  limits  of  this  city,  or  shall  cause  or 
allow  any  night-soil  cart  to  be  within  the  limits  of  said  city. 


NUISANCES    INJURIOUS    TO    HEALTH.  255 

except  during  the  times  and  seasons  mentioned  in  this  section 

for  the  removal  of  night  soil,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  of  ^^°""^'' 

ten  dollars. 

Sec.  7.     When  any  grounds  in  this  city  shall  be  so  situated  low  dr^nld.^"' 
that  water  shall  become  stagnant  thereon,  thereby  endanger-  ^  ^ 

ing  the  public  health,  the  same  shall  be  deemed  a  nuisance, 
and  may  be  abated  by  draining  or  filling  up;  and  the  Court  Sunci^nfay"™ 

.  drained,  upon 

of  Common  Council  may  order  the  same  to  be  done  withm  notice- 
such  time  as  they  shall  think  pi;oper,  notice  of  which  shall  be 
given  to  the  owner  or  owners,  occupant  or  occupants,  by  the  Notice,  how  given. 
health  committee,  causing  a  copy  of  such  order  to  be  left 
forthwith  with  such  owner  or  owners,  occupant  or  occupants, 
or  at  his  or  their  place  of  abode.     In  case  said  order  shall  not 
be  complied  with  within  the  time  specified  in  said  notice,  said  ^Tmpiy  wulf'''' 
party  or  parties  so  neglecting  shall  forfeit  and*  pay  a  fine  of 
not  exceeding  thirty  dollars,  and  a  further  fine  of  two  dollars 
for  each  daj^  thereafter,  until  such  nuisance  shall  have  been 
abated.     And  the  health  committee,  or  any  tM^o  of  them,  may  ^/^^e^Jtrcommutec 
cause  said  nuisance  to  be  abated,  and  the  cost  of  the  same  ™*^ "*'"' '''™*'' 
shall,  by  said  court,  be  assessed  upon  the  person  or  persons  so 
neglecting  to  comply  with  said  order,  and  may  be  collected  of 
said  person  or  persons  as  is  provided  in  section  eleven  of  this 
chapter.     Provided,  that  if  the   Court  of  Common  Council  S^Tof  e'^pense^to 
shall  deem  it  just  and  proper,  they  may  order  any  portion  of  tr*eas''ur/.'°""'''^ 
said  expense  to  be  paid  out  of  the  city  treasury. 

Sec.  8.     The  keeping  or  allowing  any  heap  or  quantity  of  Manurewithin^^ 
manure  or  compost,  within  thirty  feet  of  any  street,  highway,  h^B^use  a'^nufsance. 
walk,  or  dwelling  house,  shall  be  deemed  a  nuisance ;  and  the 
owner  or  occupant  of  any  stable,  or  other  building  or  place, 
violating  this  section,  shall   forfeit  and   pay  a  fine  of   ten  penalty, 
dollars,  and  after  conviction  thereof,  a  further  fine  of  two 
dollars  for  each  day's  neglect  to  remove  the  same. 

Sec.  9.     Any  proprietor  or  occupant  of  any  premises  in  ^^f<?f^**°u®^n*'7,. 
this  city  who  shall   neglect   or   refuse  to  remove  therefrom  •*«••' *»«'^p""'«''<''i' 
anything  which,  in  the  opinion  of  any  two  members  of  the 
health  committee,  expressed  in  a  written  notice,  shall  be  con- 
sidered a  nuisance  injurious  to  health,  within  the  time  and  in 
the  manner  specified  in  such  notice  given  to  said  proprietor 


256  NUISANCES    INJURIOTTS    TO    HEALTH. 

or  occupant  by  said  committee,  or  any  two  of  them,  as  pro- 
vided in  section  first  of  this  ordinance,  shall  pay  a  fine  of  two 
dollars  for  each  and  every  day  that  said  proprietor  or  occu- 
pant shall  neglect  to  comply  with  said  notice. 
?rdei'stn'i'eauu  ^^^'  ^^'     Whencvcr  any  member  of  the  health  committee 

punuhort?'  '"'''  shall  have  given  the  occupant  of  any  dwelling  house  or  tene- 
ment in  said  city,  written  or  printed  notice,  that  no  person 
residing  or  employed  in  said  dwelling  house  or  tenement  shall 
throw  any  water  or  filth,  or  any  animal  or  vegetable  matter, 
liable  to  become  a  nuisance  injurious  to  health,  into  or  upon 
any  premises  or  place  within  this  city,  and  said  order  shall  be 
violated  by  any  person  residing  or  employed  in  such  tenement 
or  dwelling  house,  such  occupant  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine 
of  three  dollars  for  each  and  eyevy  time  the  same  shall  be 
violated. 
h^aVfrcomZttee^"*^  ^^^'  ^^'  ^^  ^^^  pcrsou  Or  jjcrsous,  upon  whom  an  order 
onUg\lTtZ'!her'  shall  be  made  for  removing  a  nuisance,  or  for  cleaning  and 

orders.  ,  <='  '  <^ 

purifying  the  land,  building  or  place  where  such  nuisance 
shall  be  found,  shall  neglect  to  obey  such  order,  in  the  manner 
and  time  appointed  by  the  health  committee,  or  any  two  of 
them,  as  aforesaid,  said  committee,  or  any  two  of  them,  may 
cause  such  nuisance  to  be  removed,  or  abated,  and  such  land, 
building,  or  place  to  be  cleansed  and  purified,  and  the  Court 

by  panroffending'^  ^^  Commou  Couucil  uiay  adjust,  liquidate,  and  pay  the  ex- 
pense thereof,  and  the  same  may  be  collected  of  such  person 
or  persons  by  action  of  debt,  in  the  name  of  the  city. 

owndtsof  building       Sec.  12.     That  the  owner  of  every  building  situated  in  the 

to  provide  privy  *'  " 

accommodations.  Qj^^  ^^  Hartford,  occupicd  for  dwellings  or  for  any  mechan- 
ical or  manufacturing  purposes,  or  for  stores,  offices,  or  lodg- 
ing rooms,  who  shall  neglect  or  refuse,  while  said  building  is 
so  occupied,  to  provide  suitable  and  convenient  privy  accom- 

penaity.  modatlous  for  the  occupants  of  the  same,  shall  forfeit  and  j)ay 

to  the  City  of  Hartford  a  fine  of  thirty  dollars ;  and  a  further 
fine  of  ten  dollars  for  every  week  that  said  owner  shall  neg- 
lect or  refuse  to  provide  the  same. 

Park  river;  no  de-       Sec.  13.     That  uo  Dcrsou  or  Dcrsous  shall,  within  the  limits 

posits  to  be  tlirown  ■*•  ■■-  ' 

therein.  q£  ^^^^  ^'^^^^  dlscharge,  deposit,  or  place,  in  Park  or  Mill  river, 

any  rubbish,  stone,  clam  or  oyster  shells,  bones,  refuse  iron, 


NUISANCES    INJURIOUS    TO    HEALTH.  257 

or  any  other  substance  which  may  tend  to  obstruct  or  fill  up 

the  channel  of  said  river;  or  leave  or  place  any  putrid  fish,  ^;^,^^i,*;" ^*''* "'" 

clams,  or  oysters,  or  any  animal  or  vegetable  substance  likely 

or  liable  to  putrefy,  in  or  upon  the  shore  or  margin  of  said 

river,  or  in  the  waters  thereof;  or  discharge  or  place  in  said 

river  any  acid  or  other  noxious  substance  likely  to  kill  fish : 

or  drown  any  doe*,  cat.  or  other  animal  therein,  under  a  pen-  Drowning animau 

•^  ®-  •'  'J-  therein  prohibited. 

alty  of  not  less  than  one  dollar  nor  more  than  thirty  dollars  venaity. 

for  each  and  every  offence.     And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 

port  warden  and  health  committee   to   report   to   the  city  I'o"  warden  to 

•■  X  t/    report  violation  tu 

attorney,  for  prosecution,  all  breaches  of  this  ordinance  that  <='^>  ='"*"'»*^^- 
shall  come  to  their  knowledge. 

Sec.  14.  The  selling,  keeping,  oftering  or  exposing  for  sale,  saieof  veni 
as  an  article  of  food  in  any  form,  by  any  ]>erson  within  the 
limits  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  of  any  meat  of  any  calf  which 
shall  have  been  killed  before  it  has  reached  the  age  of  five 
weeks,  shall  be  deemed  a  nuisance;  and  any  person  who  shall 
hereafter  so  sell,  keep,  offer  or  expose  for  sale,  as  an  article  of 
food  in  any  form,  any  such  meat,  witlnn  the  limits  of  the 
city,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  penalty. 
shall  pay  a  fine  of  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars  for  each  offence. 


258 


AVATER    DErAtlTMEN'f. 


CHAPTEE  XII. 


AVATER  DEPARTMENT. 


Board  of  water  commissioners  shall  be 

trustees  of  water  bonds,  when. 
Powers  concerning  the  same. 
Shall  elect  president. 
Duties  of  president. 
Powers  of  board. 
Books  of  account  to  be  kept. 


Claims  against  commissioners,  how  paid. 
Board  may  make  rules,  subject  to  approval 

of  council. 
Balance  of  funds  in  their  hands,  how 

used. 
Lien  for  and  collection  of  water  rents 

regulated. 


^Viilur  couililission- 
ers  to  be  trustees  of 
i\ater  fund,  except 
when. 


May  sell  scrip  and 
make  loans  under 
direction  of  common 
council. 


SliiiU  ki-ep  a  record. 


Moneys,  lio 
deposited. 


President,  how 
elected,  and  a])- 
proved. 


Commissioners  not 
entitled  to  compen- 
sation excepting  the 
president. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford : 

Section  1.  The  board  of  water  commissioners,  a  majority 
oi*  whom  shall  constitute  a  quorum,  shall  be  trustees  of  the 
notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  issued  by  the  City  of 
Hartford,  as  its  water  fund  (except  where  a  trustee  thereof  is 
designated  in  the  act,  or  acts,  authorizing  such  issue),  and 
under  the  direction  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  may 
sell  such  scrip  at  par,  or  any  higher  rate,  or  pledge  the  same 
for  loans,  not  usurious,  to  meet  all  lawful  appropriations  on 
account  of  the  city  water  works;  and  shall  keep  a  duplicate 
record  of  all  transactions  relative  to  such  scrip,  and  deliver 
one  copy  thereof  to  the  city  treasurer.  And  all  moneys 
received  or  held  by  said  commissioners,  from  the  avails  of  the 
sale  or  pledge  of  such  scrip,  shall  be  deposited  in  a  bank  or 
banks  in  said  city,  subject  to  be  drawn  out  only  upon  the 
written  order  of  the  city  treasurer. 

Sec.  2.  Said  board  shall  elect  a  president,  subject  to  ap-- 
pi-oval  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  who  shall  devote  his 
whole  time  and  attention  to  the  construction,  extension, 
supervision,  care  and  management  of  the  water  works,  under  ^ 
the  general  advice  and  direction  of  the  commissioners,  and 
to  such  other  duties*  connected  with  said  water  works,  or 
with  other  business  of  the  city,  as  shall  be  assigned  to  him 
by  the  Court  of  Common  Council ;  and  no  salary  or  fee  shall 
be  allowed  to  any  other  member  of  the  board  for  seiwices  as 
commissioner,  except  as  a  remuneration  for  actual  expendi- 
tures. 


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WATER    DEPARTMENT.  259 

Sec.  3.     Said  board  of  commissioners^  may  make  contracts  May  make  contracts. 
tor  labor  and  materials  for  the  construction  of  water  works, 
which,  when  ratified  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  shall  ,!y*Xmcu!  '''''•'"' 
be  valid  and  binding  on  said  city;  and  all  contracts  for  such 
labor  or  materials  shall  be  in  writing  and  executed  in  tripli-  SKtiafw-t^'^, 
cate,  one  of  which  triplicates  shall  be  kept  b}^  the  commis- 
sioners, one  shall  be  delivered  to  the  city  clerk,  and  one  to 
the  contractor;  and  no  commissioner  shall- have  any  pecun- ^^;;;'l'fSsf^^^^^ 

,  •, .  .  1  1  contracts. 

iary  interest,  direct  or  indirect,  in  any  such  contract;  and  no 
such  contract  shall  be  executed  unless  good  and  satisfactory  fScmuracft^'be 
security  for  the  faithful  performance  of  the  same  shall  be  **''^°" 
given  by  the  contractor  and  approved  by  the  commissioners. 
Said  commissioners,  when  not  otherwise  specially  authorized 
liy  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  shall  advertise  in  one  or  more  fi'aUd^pro'i'oilli!'' 
newspapers  in  this  city  for  sealed  proposals  for  all  such  con- 
tracts, specifying  the  time  and  place  when  and  where  the  same 
shall  be  received;  and  such  proposals,  in  order  to  be  received  ^'j^X'"'"* ''°'^ 
and  acted  upon,  shall  set  forth  a  specified  sum  or  price  to  be 
paid  for  all  such  labor  and  materials,  or  for  either,  without 
condition,  limitation,  or  alteration,  and  shall  be  accompanied 
with  a  bond,  satisfactory  to  the  commissioners,  conditioned  for  Boudtoacoomi.an.v 

^  proposal. 

the  faithful  execution  of  the  proposal,  if  the  same  shall  be 
accepted ;  and  no  contract  shall  be  assigned  or  transferred  Jo^tract, !...« 
without  the  written  assent  of  the  commissioners.     Nothing 
in  this  section  contained  shall  be  applicable  to  ordinary  ex-  Extension  of  mains 

-•■J-  •         t/  and  repairs 

tensions  of  street  mains,  or  rei)airs  of  the  water  works.  excluded. 

Sec.  4.     The  commissioners  shall  superintend  all  construe-  outy  of  commi... 

■*■  sioners. 

tions  connected  with  the  water  works,  and  keep  a  record  of 

their  official  proceedings  in  the  matter;    and  report  to  the  shau  make  reports 

^  <-->  ■"■  to  common  council, 

Court  of  Common  Council,  annually,  and  at  such  other  inter-  "'"'"• 
mediate  times  as  said  court  may  require,  a  general  exhibit  of 
the  state  of  the  works,  including  an  estimate  of  needful  what  report  simii 
expenditures  for  new  and  additional  works  in  progress  and  all 
such  other  matters  of  information  as  they  shall  deem  of  im- 
portance to  the  public,  or  as  said  Court  of  Common  Council 
may  require.     And    the   commissioners   shall   keep   regular  shaii  keep  books  or 

«-  ^  X  o  account. 

l>ooks  of  account,  and  all  claims  ai^ainst  the  commissioners  or  claims  against 

'  '-'  oomniissionors,  h<i\y 

(he  city,  on   ticc-onnt  of  the  constriictioii  of  the  water  w<u-ks.  i""'^"*""*"''- 


260  WATER   DEPARTMENT. 

other  than   those    for    ordinary   extensions,    expenses,    and 

repairs,  shall  be  presented  to  said  commissioners ;  and  when 

«^?o'^wed!'InrSkid.    approved  by  them  shall  be  laid  before  the  Court  of  Common 

Council ;  Avho  may  allow  the  same,  and  direct  the  auditor  of 

city  accounts  to  draw  his  order  on  the  city  treasurer  for  the 

amount  of  any  such  claim. 

use^f^wate/"'^"'**''      ^^^'  ^-     ^^^^  board  shall  regulate  the  distribution  and  use 

SSappn)vaf  ^^  ^^^  Water  throughout  the  city ;  and  shall  establish,  subject 

of  council.  ^^^  ^^^  approval  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  scales  of 

prices,  terms,  or  rates  upon  which  the  Avater  shall  be  fur- 

shau  collect  water   nishcd  to  consumcrs  J  shall  regulate  the  time  of  payment,  and 

May  collect  addi-     collcct  all  watcr  rcuts :  and  may  collect  additional  rents  for 

tional  rents,  when.  '  ^ 

the  use  of  water,  whenever  extra  quantities  shall  be  used 
exceeding  the  quantities  estimated  for  the  same  class  of  build- 
ings or  purposes,  in  the  tariff  of  rates  by  them  adopted.  But 
of°wate?  to'beTor"*'  ^^^  coutract  shall  be  made  by  said  commissioners  for  the  use 
Telrs!  *"  "^^^  of  water,  at  any  fixed  rate,  for  a  longer  time  than  three  years. 
f^contSrsTnd*'  ^'^^'  ^'  "^^^  commissioncrs  shall  keep  a  register  of  the 
price  paid.  jiames  of  all  persons  contracting  for  the  use  of  water,  tlie 

location  where  the  same  is  used,  and  the  price  payable  there- 
annualiTTooiZon  ^'*^^' '     thcy   shall    falthfuUy   account,   semi-annually,   to    the 
Court  of  Common  Council  for  the  avails  of  all  water  rents, 
and  other  income  of  the  water  department  received  by  them  ; 
Shall  use  avails  iu    shall  pay  such  parts  of  said  avails  or  income  as  may  be  neces- 

payment  of  -I-      «'  J-  *' 

expenses.  ^^^,^^  l^^  j^aymcut  of  tlic  expcuscs  of  repairs,  ordinary  exten- 

sions, salaries  of  officers,  hire  of  labor,  and  agents,  rents,  fuel, 
Shall  hold  surplus    aud  all  other  ordinary  and  current  expenses;  and  the  surplus, 

subject  to  order  of  •^  a.  ^  i.  ■ 

city  treasurer.  |^>  ^^^^^  s\\i\\\  remain  lu  thclr  hands,  not  required  for  such  jnir- 
pose,  shall  be  held  in  trust  by  said  commissioners,  subject  at 
all  times  to  the  order  of  the  city  treasurer. 

When  avails  Sec.7.     Wheuever  tlic  rcsources  from  water  rents  in  any 

insufficient.  »' 

year  shall    be   inadequate   to   meet  the  ordinary  necessary 

extensions,  repairs,  and  current  expenses  of  the  water  works 
lufpH^ed'bv'tax^^    ^^^^  ^^®  interest  on  the  water  fund  scrip,  the  deficiency  shall 

be  supplied  by  a  tax  on  the  grand  list  of  all  persons  liable  to 
Same,  how  collected,  clty  taxatiou  for  such  purpose,  and  such  tax  shall  be  collected 

in  the  same  manner  as  other  city  taxes,  and  any  claim  or 
rsc  of  water  a  lion,  (jebt  <lue  for  the  use  of  the  water  shall  be  and  constitute  a 


POLICE   DEPARTMENT,  261 

lien  upon  the  land,  building,  tenement,  or  premises  upon  or 

in  connection  with  which  said  water  was  used,  against  the 

owner  of  the  same,  his  heirs  and  assigns,  until  such  claim  or 

debt  is  fully  paid;  but  the  same  shall  not  remain  a  lieu  for  a  ^"fe^ certwca* "b^ 

longer  period  than  three  months  after  the  same  becomes  due,  months. 

unless  a  certificate  shall  be  lodged  by  the  president  of  the 

board  of  water  commissioners,  with  the  town  clerk  of  the 

town  of  Hartford,  and  signed  bj^  said  president,  describing 

the  premises  and  the  amount  claimed  under  said  lien.     And 

said   lien   may  be   foreclosed  in  the  name  of  the   board  of  J^i!>*,^;j^*''^ '"'"■*'■ 

water  commissioners,  at  any  time  after  said  debt  or  claim  is 

due  and  payable,  before  the  City  Court  of  said  city,  in  the 

same  manner  as  a  mortgage  is  foreclosed,  or  may  be  collected 

of  the  person  or  persons  liable  therefor  in  an  action  before 

the  City  Court. 


CHAPTER  XIII. 


POLICE  DEPARTMENT. 


Police  commission,  how  constituted,  and 

terms  of  office  of  members. 
Mayor,  ex-officio  presiding  officer. 
Mayor  may  vote,  when. 
Board  may  appoint  secretary. 
Police  department,  how  composed  and 

appointed. 
Members  of,  how  removed. 
Expenses  of  board,  how  paid. 


Non-residence  vacates  office. 

Rewards  prohibited. 

Service  outside  of  city,  how  regulated. 

Salaries  of  policemen,  how  paid. 

Powers  of  policemen. 

Duties  of  chief,  captain,  and  lieutenant. 

Duties  of  policemen. 

Qualifications  necessary  to  appointment. 

Mayor    chief    executive    officer,    and 


Salaries  of  policemen.  I     powers. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of.  Common  Co)(.ncil  of  the  City  of 
Hartford  : 

Section  1.     There  shall  continue  to  be  a  police  force  for  i'oii.edopartii.ent. 
the   City  of  Hartford,  which   shall    be   styled    "the   Police 
Department  of  the  City  of  Hartford." 

Sec.  2.     There  shall  continue  to  be  a  board  of  police  com-  Boantor  pohoocoiu. 

A  niissioners,  how 

missioners  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  which  shall  consist  of  si.\  TmTeT"'''''"'' 


262  POLICE    DEPARTMENT. 

electors  of  said  city,  and  each  commissioixer  shall  hold  his 
office  for  three  years  and  until  his  successor  is  appointed  and 
qualified,  and  on  the  expiration  of  the  terms  of  office  of  each 
of  the  present  commissioners  his  successor  shall  be  appointed 
for  the  full  term  of  three  years  next  succeeding  and  until  his 
successor  shall  be  appointed  and  qualified. 
Powers  of  boar. 1  oi       ^EC.  3.     Said  commisslouers  shall  have  the  general  mana«>'e^ 

commissioners,  c  ~ 

rnent  of  the  police  department  of  said  city,  and    make  all 
May  make  reguia-    ncedful  rulcs  aud  rei>:ulations  for  the  ^jjovernment  thereof  not 

tions  subject  to  ordi-  o  O 

"ommoif coumur  **  conflictiug  with  the  laws  of  the  state,  or  ordinances  of  the 
city,  and  further  subject  to  the  orders  of  the  Court  of  Coui^ 

ponaE"''"  '^i<^^  Council,  and  said  board  may  prescribe  suitable  penalties 
including  suspension  or  removal  from  office  for  the  infringe- 
ment  of  its  rules. 

Mayor pre-i.ui.s  Sec.  4.     Thc  mayor  of  the  city  shall,  e.r-officio,  be  the  pre- 

siding officer  of  the  board  of  police  commissioners,  and  shall 
have  the  casting  vote  in  all  cases  where  there  shall  be  a  tie 

Ma.vvote,wbe...  votc  of  Said  board )  provided,  that  he  shall  have  no  vote  in  the 
appointment  of  any  member  of  the  police  force. 

v.«ard  may  appoint  Sec.  5.  Thc  board  of  police  commissioners  shall  aiu)oint 
some  person  to  act  as  secretary  of  said  board,  who  shall  keep 

ixuio.of.  the  records  thereof;  and  said  person,  so  appointed  as  secre- 

tary,  may  be  selected  by  said  board  from  their  own  number, 
if  said  board  shall  so  direct. 

iKpartmeut,  how         ^^c.  g,     Thc  pollcc  department  shall  consist  of  one  chief  of 

instituted.  A  i- 

Number  of  police-  policc,  ouc  captalu,  ouc  lieutcuant,  and  not  less  than  twenty 
nor  more  than  forty  policemen,  and  not  less  than  ten  nor 
more  than  thirty'  supernumerary  policemen. 

Appointments,  how  Sec.  7.  All  meuibers  of  the  police  department  named  in 
section  six,  shall  be  appointed  b}'  the  board  of  police  commis- 

shaii hold  oflioc      sioners,  and  shall  hold  their  office  durlno-  o-ood  behavior,  and 

during  good  '  n     n  '^ 

behavior.  uutll  rcuiovcd  for  cause.     But  'no  person  shall  be  appointed 

to  any  office  in  the  department  without  the  assent  of  at  least 
four  members  of  said  board.     And  no  member  of  said  depart- 

itemovuis, how       ment  shall  be  removed  unless  upon  a  complaint  in  writing  (a  • 
copy  of  which  shall  be  furnished  to  him),  and  after  he  shall 

Noti.  e.  hott  given,  havc  had  a  reasonable  time,  not  less  than  six  days,  to  prepare 
a  defence  thereto;  snch  complaint  shall  be  made  to  the  board 


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POLICE    DEPARTMENT.  263 

of  commissioners,  and  may  be  made  by  any  person  whomso- 
ever:   'provided,  that  any  four  members  of  said  board  may  ^j;fj™«^j^«;;^'" 

-,    ^  1  n         '  ^     ^  J.  J.  for  cause  without 

remove  or  suspend  for  cause  any  member  oi  said  department  charges  preforrci. 
without  charges  being  preferred.     The  chief  of  police,  the 

captain  of  police,  the  mayor  of  the  city,  and  the  police  judge,  ^ 

or  any  member  of  the  board  of  police  commissioners  shall  ^Xfor  o^,l?ef  '"■ 
have  poAver  to  suspend  policemen  from  office  tor  cause ;  but 
such  suspension  shall  not  continue  for  more  than  twenty-four 
hours  thereafter,  unless  the  person  ordering  such  suspension,  ^ J^;t"fmJ^  *"' 
shall  within  that  time  notify  the  said  board  in  Avriting  of  such  '"'p'"^""- 
suspension,  the  ground  of  such  suspension,  and  the  names  of 
witnesses  to  sustain  such  charges.     After  notice  shall  have 
been  given  to  the  accused,  the  said  board,  or  a  committee  of 
their  own  number,  to  be  appointed  by  them,  shall  hear  and 
examine  witnesses  under  oath  or  affirmation,  upon  the  charges 
and  in  defence;    and  said  board  may  continue  the  suspen- 
sion,  remove  the  accused  from  office,  or  restore  him  to  duty. 
In  all  cases  in  which  the  suspension  is  continued,  the  party  RS*"^  """•'' 
suspended  shall  be  deprived  of  his  pay  from  the  date  of  his 
suspension,  but  he  shall  not  be  exempt  from  performance  of 
duty   unless   the   officer   making   such   suspension    shall   so 
expressly  order.     The  violation  of  any  law  of  the  state,  of  ^^^^a^  ^';;;";;^ '^ 
ny  ordinance  of  the  city,  or  of  any  rule  or  regulation  of  the 
police  department,  or  incompetency,  shall,  if  proved,  be  pun- 
ished by  suspension  or  dismissal  from  the  force. 

Sec.  8.     No  pay  shall  be  allowed  to  members  of  the  board  r^ecdvino"comV4- 
of  police  commissioners  for  any  services  rendered  by  them, 
but  the  actual  expenses  and   disbursements  of  said   board 
incurred  in  the  performance  of  its  duties  shall  be  paid  from 
the  city  treasury  when  allow^ed  by  the  common  council. 

Sec.  9.     The  pay  of  the  chief  of  police  shall  be  two  thou-  saiades  oi  poHoc 

-»•      «^  ■*■  men. 

sand  dollars  per  annum,  the  pay  of  the  captain  of  police  shall  chier  of  ponee. 

be  fifteen  hundred  dollars  per  annum,  the  pay  of  the  lieuten-  Lieutenant. 

ant  of  police  shall  be  twelve  hundred  dollars  per  annum ;  and 

the  pay  of  each  policeman  shall  be  one  thousand  dollars  per  Poucemeu. 

annum ;  and  the  pay  of  the  supernumerary  policemen  shall  superuumerary. 

be  at  the  same  rate  as  the  pay  of   the   regular  policemen, 

when  acting  in  the  place,  oi'  performing  the  duties  of  regular 


264 


POLICE    DEPARTMENT. 


Members  of  police 
must  reside  in  city. 


Members  of  force  uot 
to  engage  in  any 
other  occupation. 


To  receive  no 
rewards. 


Service  outside  of 
city,  when  per- 
mitted aud  how 
regulated. 


Charges  for  such 
service,  how 
eatablished. 


Chief  of  police  shall 
keep  account  of 
«ervice,  etc. 


Penalty  for  receiving 
presents  or  reward. 


policemen,  and  Avhen  employed  only  for  portions  of  the  day, 
the  pay  of  such  supernumeraries  shall  be  at  the  rate  of  two 
dollars  aud  seventy  cents  for  each  day  of  twenty-four  hours, 
and  no  allowance  shall  be  made  for  any  extra  time  or  senioew 
during  the  same  day  of  twenty-four  hours. 

Sec.  10.  The  office  of  any  member  of  the  j)olice  force  shall 
become  vacant  whenever  said  member  ceases  to  reside  within 
the  limits  of  said  city. 

Sec.  11.  'No  person  while  employed  as  a  regular  member 
of  the  police  force,  or  as  an  officer  of  the  same,  shall  engage. 
directly  or  indirectly,  in  any  other  occupation  for  pay,  hire, 
reward,  or  compensation  of  any  kind  whatsoever,  and  no 
officer,  policeman,  or  supernumerary  policeman,  shall  demand, 
accept,  or  receive  any  compensation,  present,  or  reward,  for 
services  rendered  or  to  be  rendered,  except  as  hereinafter 
provided. 

Sec.  12.  Whenever  the  services  of  any  member  or  mem- 
bers of  the  police  force  may  be  required  by  parties,  othei- 
than  the  City  of  Hartford  (and  citizens  of  the  same  where 
the  crime  has  been  committed  within  the  limits  of  the  city;, 
the  chief  of  police  may,  if  in  his  judgment  the  interests  of 
the  city  will  not  suffer  thereby,  detail  such  member  or  mem- 
bers of  the  force  as  he  shall  judge  expedient,  and  shall  charge 
such  parties  for  said  services  so  rendered,  such  sums  as  may 
be  established  by  the  board  of  j)oIice  commissioners,  and 
which  sums  shall  not  be  less  than  three  dollars  a  day  for  each 
policeman  so  employed,  in  addition  to  the  necessary  expenses. 
The  chief  of  police  shall  keep,  in  a  book  kept  expressly  for 
that  purpose,  a  true  and  correct  account  of  all  such  services 
performed,  the  names  of  the  parties  for  whom,  and  the  names 
of  the  policemen  by  whom  performed,  the  time  spent,  and 
expenses  incurred,  the  sums  charged,  the  amount  and  dates 
of  payment,  together  with  such  other  memoranda  as  in  his 
opinion  may  be  proper. 

Sec.  13.  No  member  of  the  police  force  shall  perform  any 
seiwices  as  above  specified  except  by  order  of  the  chief,  cap- 
tain, or  lieutenant  of  police,  and  any  officer  or  member  of  the 
force,  who  shall  demand,  accept,  or  I'eceive,  directly  or  indi- 


POLICE   DEPARTMENT.  265 

rectly,  any  money,  presents,  or  valuable  articles  for  services 

so  rendered,  or  to  be  rendered,  except  the  legal  charges  as 

fixed  by  the  police  commissioners,  or  who  shall  neglect  for 

more  than  twenty-four  hours  after  the  performance  of  such 

service  to  report  the  same  in  writing  to  the  chief  of  police,  f,';^^^™^^^,^^''^ 

with  his  legal  charges  and  expenses,  or  who  shall  neglect,  for 

more  than  twenty-four  hours  after  receiving  such  payments, 

to  pay  over  the  full  amount  so  received  to  the  secretary  of 

the  board  of  police  commissioners,  shall  be  dismissed  from 

the  force.     And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  secretary  of  the  Penalty  on  laiiuro. 

hoard  of  police  commissioners  to  deposit  on  the  first  day  of 

each  month,  with  the  city  treasurer,  all  moneys  received  by  ,^e7eh4"d.Tow- ' 

the  police  force,  in  accordance  with  this  ordinance,  and  to  "^^p**"'""*- 

take  from  the  city  treasurer  a  receipt  therefor. 

Sec.  14.     The  city  auditor  shall  draw  his  order  on  the  city  |^J*[,>f  -  *« ''«"  i'^'"* 
treasurer,  monthly,  for  the  pay  of  each  member  of  the  police 
force,  and  the  certificate  of  the  chief  of  police,  countersigned 
Ijy  a  member  of  the  board  of  police  commissioners,  shall  be 
liis  sufficient  voucher  therefor,  except  in  the  case  of  the  chief  ^iJchlr!'"'''^"' 
of  police,  when  the  certificate  of  a  member  of  the  board  shall 
^be  suMcient.     No  fees  or  compensation,  other  than  is  herein 
provided,  shall  be  charged  or  received  by  any  member  of  the 
police  department  ;.but  each  member  of  said  department  shall,  ^I^b'^foreToj^'g '*''*'' 
before  being  qualified  for  the  discharge  of  the  duties  of  his"^"'"'"  " 
office,  execute,  in  writing,  a  transfer  and  assignment  of  all  his 
interest  in  any  fees  which  may  be  taxed  in  his  favor,  in  said 
Police  Court,  to  the  treasurer  of  the  city,  for  the  benefit  of 
said  city ;  and  no  member  of  the  department  shall  be  entitled 
to  receive  any  salary,  for  any  services  rendered  by  him,  until 
such  transfer  and  assignment  shall  have  been  executed  by 
him  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  l)oard  of  commissioners,  and 
lodged  on  file  in  the  office  of  the  city  treasurer. 

Sec.  15.     Each  officer  and  member  of  the  police' force  shall  f^fpowr^orcon* 
have,  within  the  city,  the  same  powers  as  to  the  service  of" 
criminal  process  and  the  arrest  of  offenders  that  constables  of 
towns  have  within  their  respective  towns. 

Sec.  16.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  chief  of  police,  under  d..uos ot  oi.ier  ..r 
the  direction  of  the  police  commissioners,  to  superintend  the 


266  POLICE   DEPARTMENt. 

^ua"te"T''re  ort  P^licG  department;  and  it  shall  be  his  duty,  once  in  three 
months,  or  oftener  if  necessary,  to  report  to  the  common 
council,  through  the  board  of  commissioners,  the  state  of  the 
department.     The  common  council  shall  provide  him  with  an 

wifeTe''k^?''  office,  wherein  he  shall  keep  all  the  records  of  the  police 
department  (except  the  records  of  the  board  of  police  com- 
missioners), and  shall  also  keep  a  roster  of  all  the  officers  and 
members  of  the  police  force,  and  all  reports  shall  be  made  to 
him  at  said  office,  which  shall  be  the  headquarters  of  the 
department.     He  shall  receive  from  any  subordinate  member 

JoX'tailTtsInd''^  of  ^^^  police  force,  and  from  every  other   person,  all  com- 

be"prosecuted.  "  plaiuts  of  vlolatlous  of  any  law  of  the  state,  or  ordinance  of 
the  city,  and  shall  see  that  the  same  be  prosecuted  according 
to  law.  He  shall  also  have  the  general  care  and  responsibility 
of  the  said  police  force ;  and  all  other  members  of  said  force 
shall  be  subject  to  his  orders.     He  shall,  from  time  to  time, 

Shall  designate       deslffUate  the  officers  to  attend  the  Police  Court,  and  to  col- 

officers  to  attend  '-'  ' 

rofcTtaressraents.  lect  asscssmeuts,  and  to  serve  notices;  and  in  case  of  the 
absence  of  any  regular  policeman  from  duty,  shall  appoint  a 
supernumerary  policeman  to  take  his  place.     The  captain  of 

Captain  shall  a«t  In  police,  iu  casc  of  thc  abscncc  or  disability  of  the  chief  of 

absence  of  chief.        •»■  '  'J 

police,  shall  discharge  the  duties  of  said  chief  He  shall  also, 
at  all  times,  under  the  direction  of  said  chief,  have  the  man- 
agement and  control  of  said  joolice  force.     He  shall  be  on 

Duties  of  captain,  ^xxtj  at  such  tiuics  aud  places  as  shall  be  ordered  by  the  board 
of  police  commissioners,  and  shall  receive  and  execute  all 
orders  received  from  them  through  the  chief  of  police,  when 
said  chief  of  police  shall  be  on  duty.     He  shall,  in  connection 

Duties  of  lieutenant,  with  thc  licutenaut,  have  charge  of  the  station  house,  and  all 
persons  who  shall  be  committed  to,  or  confined  in  said  station 

ftSnhoust'''""^''^  ^^o^s®  ^^^^1  ^^  i*i  ^is  custody  and  control,  by  Avhomsoever 
arrested ;  and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  inquire  into  the  charges 
made  against  any  person  so  committed;  and  shall  cause  them 
to  be  legally  brought  before  the  Police  Court  for  trial,  and 
see  that  the  witnesses  against  them  are  duly  summoned. 

Commitments  to         Sec.  17.     No  pcrsoii  shall  bc  committed  to  or  detained  in 

and  discharges  from 

station  house.  ^jjg  statlou  housc,  or  discharged  therefrom,  without  the 
knowledge  and  consent  of  the  chief  of  police,  or  captain,  or 


POLICE  DEPARTMENT.  267 

the  lieuteaaut,  when  acting  in  his  place,  and  then  only  as 
provided  by  law. 

Sec.  18.  Either  the  captain  or  lieutenant  shall  be  at  the  fhtSuendtbou" 
station  house,  except  when  both  are  necessarily  absent,  in 
which  case  a  policeman  shall  be  deputed  by  the  chief  of 
police  to  take  charge  of  the  same;  and  while  so  taking 
charge,  he  shall  have  the  same  authority  over  and  discharge 
the  same  duties  in  relation  to  the  station  house  as  the  captain 
when  on  duty.  The  lieutenant  of  police  shall,  in  the  absence  Duties  of  lieutcuaut. 
or  disability  of  the  captain  of  police,  discharge  all  the  duties 
incumbent  on  said  captain,  and  also  such  special  duties  as 
shall  be  required  of  him  by  the  board  of  police  commissioners, 
the  chief  of  police,  or  captain  of  police,  and  shall  also  dis- 
charge the  ordinary  duties  of  a  policeman  when  not  other- 
wise employed. 

Sec.  19.     It  shall  bo  the  duty  of  policemen  to  obey  such  Duty  oi  policemen. 
lawful  orders  and  directions  as  they  shall  receive,  from  time 
to  time,  from  their  superior  officers  respecting  their  duty; 
and  it  shall  be  their  duty  to  guard  the  city  day  and  night ;  to 
I'eport  to  the  chief  of  police,  throui>;h  the  captain,  all  viola-  shaii  report  an 

^  X  ^  o  J.  /  violations  of  cit.r 

tions  of  city  ordinances,  all  suspicious  persons,  all  houses  of '''■'*'"'*°'"''- 
ill'fame,  all  pawnbroker  shops,  and  shops  for  the  purchase 
and  sale  of  second-hand  articles,  all  gaming  houses,  and  all 
disorderly  and  suspicious  places  of  resort.     They  shall  pre- 
serve the  public  peace,  and  render  all  possible  assistance  to  shau  preserve  tuc 

public  peace. 

the  ministers  of  the  law.  They  shall  direct  strangers  the  shau  direct 
nearest  way  to  their  places  of  destination,  and  when  neces- 
sary shall  see  that  they  are  accompanied  by  a  member  of  the 
force.  They  shall,  when  necessary,  attend  the  Police  Court, 
and  shall  serve  the  process  of  said  court,  and  shall  be  subject 
to  the  orders  and  directions  of  said  court.  They  shall 
especially  attend  to  keeping  the  streets  and  sidewalks  of  the  Keep  streets  dear  of 
city  clear  of  all  unlawful  obstructions,  and  shall  report  to  the 
chief  of  police,  through  the  captain,  all  unlawful  obstructions 
thereof,  who  shall  take  immediate  steps  to  remove  the  same. 
They  shall  collect  all  assessments  for  betterments  and  con- si.aii  collect 
struction  laid  by  the  board  of  street  commissioners,  and  the 
mayor  shall  issue  his  warrant   to   collect  said  assessments. 


assessments. 


268 


POLICE   DEPARTMENT. 


Shall  serve  notices. 


Shall  servo  all 
process  Issued  by 
the  coroner. 


Shall  attend  at  flres 
and  protect 
property. 


(jiialilicatioiis  of 
l>oliccmeii. 


Shall  make  oath, 
how. 


Visiliug  tippling 
or  bawdy  house 
while  on  duty,  how 
punished. 


How  puiiishcil  for 
interference  in 
elections. 


Mayor  the  chief  ex- 
ecutive magistrate. 


directed  to  said  policemen,  who  shall  serve  the  same ;  they 
shall  also  serve  all  notices  that  shall  be  ordered  to  be  served 
by  the  common  council,  and  they  shall  receive  no  compensa- 
tion for  such  collections  or  services.  They  shall  also,  without 
compensation,  serve  all  process  which  may  be  issued  by  the 
coroner,  and  attend  upon  the  inquests  taken  by  him  when 
directed  by  the  chief. 

Sec.  20.  ,  All  policemen  not  otherwise  specially  employed 
shall,  on  the  breaking  out  of  a  tire,  immediately  repair  to  the 
vicinity  thereof,  and  use  their  best  endeavors  to  save  and 
secure  property. 

Sec.  21.  Every  ^^erson  appointed  to  an  office  in  the  police 
department  shall  be,  at  the  time  of  his  appointment,  a  citizen 
of  the  United  States,  and  a  qualified  voter  of  the  city,  and 
capable  of  speaking,  reading,  and  writing  the  English 
language;  and  shall,  before  exercising  any  functions  of  his 
office,  make  oath  or  affirmation,  before  some  competent 
authority,  that  he  will  support  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States,  and  the  State  of  Connecticut,  and  that  he  will  faith- 
fully discharge  the  duties  of  the  office  to  which  he  shall  have 
been  appointed ;  and  shall  cause  a  certificate  of  such  oath  or 
affirmation  to  be  lodged  in  the  office  of  the  board  of  police 
commissioners. 

Sec.  22.  Every  member  of  the  force  Avho  shall,  while  on 
duty,  enter  any  tippling,  or  bawdy,  or  otherwise  disorderly 
house,  unless  to  suppress  disturbance,  or  upon  the  order  of 
his  superior  officer,  or  shall  interfere  in  any  caucus  or  pri- 
mary election,  or  shall  attempt,  either  directly  or  indirectly, 
to  influence  any  elector  in  the  exercise  of  his  right  of  voting, 
or  shall  attend  to  any  poll  or  voting  place  unless  so  directed 
by  his  superior  officer,  shall  be  removed  from  his  place  in  said 
department,  and  be  ineligible  to  reappointment  for  the  term 
of  one  year. 

Sec.  23.  The  mayor  shall  be  the  chief  executive  magistrate 
and  conservator  of  the  peace  of  the  city;  and  it  shall  be  his 
duty  to  be  vigilant  and  active  in  causing  the  laws  and  ordi- 
nances to  be  executed  and  enforced.  He  and  the  chief  of 
police  shall  each  have  authority,  w4th  force  and  strong  hand 


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POLICE  DEPARTMENT.  269 

\\lieii   necessary,  to   suppress   all   tumults,  riots,  routs,  and  ^^;^,'rc'St^^^^^ 
unlawful  assemblies,  and  to  arrest  without  warrant  and  com- 
mit to  prison  for  any  time  not  exceeding  twenty-four  hours, 
any  person  or  persons  who  shall  be   detected   in   reveling, 
quarreling,  brawling,  or  otherwise  behaving  in  a  disorderly 
manner,  to  the  disturbance  or  annoyance  of  the  peaceable 
inhabitants  of  the  city ;    each  of  them  shall  have  power  to 
enter  any  house  or  building  which  he  has  reasonable  cause  to  ^^%^^X  Scrse^ 
suspect  to  be  inhabited  by  persons  of  ill-fame,  or  to  which  '"""""''  ''''*^°* 
persons  of  dissolute,  idle,  or   disorderly  character   are  sus- 
pected to  resort;  and  if  any  dissolute,  disorderly,  or  vagrant 
persons  are  found  assembled  in  any  such  house  or  building  he 
shall  command  all  such  persons  immediately  to  disperse,  if  in 
his  opinion  the  good  order  of  an}^  portion  of  the  city  require 
it ;  and  in  case  of  neglect  or  refusal  to  obey  such  command, 
he  is  hereb}^  authorized  and  empowered  to  commit,  without  ^a?rant,"Jvheu!''""^ 
warrant,  any  person  or  persons  so  disobeying,  to  prison,  for  a 
term  not  exceeding  twenty-four   hours;    and  each  of  them 
shall  have  and  exercise,  within  the  limits  of  the  city,  all  the 
powers  ffiven  to  sheriifs  or  other  officers  by  Title  XX.,  Chap-  s'laii  have  within 

X  o  ./  /  X      0,t,y  same  powers  a? 

ter  6,  Section  2  of  the  Revised  Statutes,  and  may  at  all  times,  ''''"'^'• 

if  necessary,  require  the  aid  of  any  city  or  deputy  marshal, 

constable,  policeman,  or  any  and  all  of  them,  or  any  other 

person   or  persons;    and  whenever   the   mayor   shall   have 

reason  to  believe  that  great  opposition  will  be  made  to  the 

execution  of  his  authorit}^,  he  shall  have  power  to  call  out 

all,  any,  or  either  of  the  military  companies  of  the  city,  and  JSiuarvforT" 

may  exert  all  the  force  necessary  to  enable  him  to  execute  '^''''"" 

the  laws  within  the  limits  of  the  city. 

Sec.  24.     Every  officer  and  soldier  when  called  into  service  Disobedience  of  com- 

•^  mands  of  lua.yor, 

by  the  mayor  of  the  city  in  the  manner  aforesaid,  who  shall  h°^"  p""'*'*^'^- 
disobey  the  commands  of  the  mayor,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a 
tine  to  the  city  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars. 

Sec,  25,     Everv  person  who  shall  hinder,  obstruct,  resist,  Kcsistancetoofla- 

•       J-  7  5  7  cers,  how  punished. 

or  abuse  the  mayor,  or  any  city  or  deputy  marshal,  or  con- 
stable, police  officer,  or  policeman,  in  the  execution  of  his 
office,  or,  when  commanded  to  assist  him  therein,  shall  refuse 


270  POLICE   DE]»A11TMENT. 

or  unreasonably  neglect  to  do  so,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine 
not  exceeding  fifty  dollars. 
nrrctersUVupon       ^^c.  26.     It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  persons  to  assemble  idly 

Micsidcwalks,  parks,  ■,  ..  -,  ii>iii  n 

etc.,  prohibited,      aud  reuiaiu  m  crowds  upon  the  sidewalks,   crosswalks,  or 

walks  upon  the  public  parks,  or  before  churches,  or  before  or 

within  the  cemeteries  Avithin  the  city,  and  all  persons,  to  the 

Oil  rofusiiii;  to  dis-   numbcr  of  three  or  more,  so  assembling  and  refusing*  to  dis- 
perse on  conimaud,  '  O  O 

how  proceeded  with.  ^^^^^^^  whcu  comniauded  by  the  mayor,  or  b}^  any  city  or 
deputy  marshal,  police  officer  or  policeman,  special  constable, 
or  by  any  sheriff,  deputy  sherifi',  constable,  or  justice  of  the 
peace,  may  be  arrested  and  forthwith  brought  before  the 
Police  Court,  or  if  it  be  on  Sunday,  or  in  the  night  season, 

I'euaity.  such  pcrsou  or  persons  may  be  confined  in  the  station  house 

until  the  next  day  upon  which  said  Police  Court  shall  be 
holden;  and  every  such  person  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not 
exceeding  thirty  dollars. 


HIGHWAY    pEPARTMENT. 


271 


CHAPTEE  XIY. 


HIGHWAY  DEPARTMENT. 


Publication  of  resolution  establishing 
public  improvement. 

Character  of  resolution. 

Reference  to  lioard  of  Street  Commis- 
sioners. 

Entire  cost  to  be  assessed  upon  persons 
benefited. 

Street  Commissioners  to  make  appraisals 
and  assessments. 

Notice  before  assessment  and  appraisal. 

Proceedings  when  land  to  be  taken. 

Proceedings  to  take  land  by  agreement. 

Proceedings  to  take  land  by  condemna- 
tion. 

Notice  of  appraisals  and  assessments. 

Report  of  Commissioners  to  common 
council. 

Powers  of  common  council  upon  report. 

When  land  condemned  may  be  entered 
upon. 

DamPiges,  how  deposited  in  certain  cases. 

Co^t  of  construction,  how  assessed. 


Notice  of  assessments  for,  how  given. 

Assessments,  when  payable. 

Deductions  from  assessments,  when  and 
how  allowed. 

Assessments,  how  collected. 

Assessments,  a  lien. 

Liens,  how  continued. 

Liens,  how  foreclosed. 

Land,  when  and  how  sold  for  assess- 
ments. 

City  highway  book. 

Turnpike  roads. 

Sidewalks  and  gutters,  how  made  and 
repaired. 

Cost  of,  a  lien. 

Duties  of  Board  of  Street  Commissioners. 

City  surveyor,  when  and  how  elected, 
term  of  office  and  duties. 

Width  of  new  streets. 

Extinguishing  public  lights  forbidden. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 

(Hartford : 
Section  1.   Whenever  any  vote  or  resolution  shall  be  offered  vote  on  resolution 
•^  proposing  to  lay  out, 

either  board  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  proposing  9t\^Sc"fpui.iic'im- 

provement  must  be 

to  lay  out,  construct,  or  establish,  any  new  highway,  street,  p^ssaSf**  ^''*'**'*' "^ 
public  park,  dyke,  or  walk;  or  to  discontinue,  or  to  alter 
the  location,  grade,  or  width  of  any  existing  highway,  street, 
public  park,  dyke,  or  walk ;  or  to  exchange  or  sell  one  high- 
Avay  for  another;  or  to  establish  a  building  line  or  lines,  or  an 
opening  between  buildings ;  or  to  raise,  fill  up,  or  drain  low 
grounds;  or  to  lay  out,  construct,  or  alter  a  public  sewer;  or 
to  order,  construct,  or  alter,  a  sidewalk  and  gutters,  under 
any  of  the  provisions  of  the  city  charter,  or  amendments 
thereto,  such  vote  shall  not  be  passed  by  either  board  of  said 
Court  of  Common  Council,  until  said  court  has  caused  said 
proposed  vote  or  resolution  and  a  certificate  that  the  same  is 
pending  in  said  court,  attested  by  the  city  clerk,  to  be  pub- 


272  HIGHWAY    DEPARTMENT. 


I 


How  published.  lished  twice,  at  least,  in  two  daily  newspapers  published  m 
the  Citj^  of  Hartford,  with  a  notice  appended  to  such  pub- 
lished vote  or  resolution  to  all  persons  to  file  a  Avritten  state- 

S^edlmprovement,  Hicnt  of  thcii*  objectlous,  if  auy  they  have,  with  the  board  of 
street  commissioners  within  ten  days  inclusive  from  the  day 
of  the  first  publication  of  said  notice.  Nothing  in  this  sec- 
tion, however,  shall  apply  to  mere  repairing  or  reconstructing 
any  existing  public  work  or  improvement  once  complete. 

sll'te!'"'*" ''"""  *^^^'  2-     Every  such  proposed  vote  or  resolution  shall  briefly 

and  intelligibly  state  the  general  character  and  descripton  of 
the  proposed  improvements,  but  need  not  contain  definite 
measurements,  courses,  or  termini.  It  may  embrace  one  or 
more  of  the  several  kinds  of  local  improvement  specified  in 
the  first  sectioai  of  this  ordinance,  and  in  case  of  a  new  street, 
or  alteration  of  an  established  street,  shall  designate  the 
building  lines  on  said  street. 

Vote  before  passage      Qec.  3.     Thc  Court  of  Commou  Council  shall,  before  further 

shall  be  referred  to  ' 

board  of  street  tx  j.»ii  1a»  £• 

commissioners.  procccdiug  to  pass  or  Carry  out  said  vote  or  resolution,  reier 
the  same  to  the  board  of  street  commissioners  for  their  inves- 
tigation, and  said  board  shall  forthwith  inquire  into  the  same. 

Board  shall  report    aud  makc  rcDort  thereon  to  the  Court  of  Common  Council, 

thereon,  how.  -••  •' 

either  recommending  or  disapproving   the   passage  of  said 
vote  or  resolution  with  their  reasons  therefor. 
After  ten  days.coun-      Sec.  4.     At  auv  tlmc  aftcr  thc  expiration  of  said  ten  days. 

oil  may  proceed  how.  •'  J-  ./     / 

and  after  the  report  of  the  commissioners  thereon  shall  have 
been  made  and  accepted,  said  Court  of  Common  Council  may 
proceed  to  carry  said  vote  or  resolution  into  effect  in  mannerll 
as   hereinafter  provided,  or   otherwise  act  upon  the  same. 

5ro"'enient'!'ifow '  ^^^  wheuevcr  sald  court  shall  order  any  of  said  proposed 
improvements,  the  entire  expense  of  carrying  out  said  im- 
provements shall  be  assessed  as  betterments  upon  the  person 
or  land  specially  benefited  thereby  as  hereinafter  provided. 

Street  commission-       Sec.  5.     Said  votc  or  rcsolutiou  shall  be  referred  to  said 

crs  to  make  ap- 

mTiSetc.''*''''  board  of  street  commissioners,  who  shall  estimate  the  costs  of 
said  proposed  public  work  or  improvement,  and  shall  also 
appraise  the  damages  to  be  paid  to  any  person  for  land  or 
any  interest  therein  taken  foi-  such  work  or  improvement, 


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HIGHWAY   DEPARTMENT.  273 

luid  shall  also  assess  said  cost  of  construction  and  the  amount 
of  said  damages  upon  the  persons  or  land  specially  benefited 
thereby,  as  hereinafter  provided. 

Sec.  6.     The  board  of  street  commissioners,  in  all  cases,  ^;j'41.,''aforMsess. 

when  called  upon  to  appraise  damages  for  land  or  any  in-  "'*'"'■         ^ ^ 

terest    therein    taken    for   any   of   said    improvements,    or 

special  damages  resulting  to  land  or  interest  therein  from 

change  of  grade  of  any  highway,  or  to  assess  betterments 

on  any  party  for  taking  said  land  for  said  improvements, 

or  for  special  benefits  resulting  from  such  change  of  grade, 

shall,  before  making  such  appraisals  or  assessments,  cause 

public  notice  to  be  given  for  two  days,  at  least,  in  two  or 

more  daily  newspapers  published  in  the  City  of  Hartford, 

and  at  least  four  days  before  the  time  of  hearing,  of  a  time 

and  place  where  all  parties  in  interest  may  appear  before  said 

commissioners,  and  be  heard  with  witnesses  relative  to  the  S^SSes**" 

amount  of  damages  or  betterments,  or  both,  to  be  appraised 

or  assessed  to  them  respectively,  and  said  commissioners  shall 

examine  said  parties  and  witnesses  under  oath. 

Sec.  7.  Whenever  any  vote  or  resolution  described  in  the  f/n'^To^Saki'n." 
first  section  of  this  ordinance  has  been  legally  published,  and 
it  shall  be  necessary  to  take  any  land  or  any  interest  therein 
belonging  to  private  owners  or  corporations  for  said  contem- 
plated improvement,  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  before 
otherwise  carrying  said  vote  or  resolution  into  effect,  unless 
they  obtain  such  land  or  interest  by  voluntary  dedication 
from  the  owners  thereof,  or  unless  in  case  of  change  of  grade 
of  any  highway,  they  shall  obtain  releases  of  all  special  dam- 
ages resulting  to  land  or  any  interest  therein  from  said 
change  of  grade,  shall  refer  the  subject  matter  of  the  con- Reference  to  street 

commissioners. 

templated  improvement  to  the  board  of  street  commissioners, 
and  said  board  shall  thereupon  proceed  in  behalf  of  said 
Court  of  Common  Council,  as  follows:  Said  board  shall  obtain  Board shaii proceed, 

how. 

from  the  city  surveyor  a  map,  drawing,  or  written  descrip-  Map. 
tion,  clearly  explaining  the  contemplated  improvement,  and 
showing  the  adjoining  land  and  owners  thereof,  and  shall 
then  agree,  if  possible,  with  the  owners  of  the  land  required 
for  said  improvement,  upon  the  compensation  to  be  made 


2^4  HIGHWAY    DEPARTMENT. 

Shall  agree  with      therefoi*,  iiichidins;  the  damages  for  establishing  a  buiidina: 

owners  of  land  if  '  O  O  O  & 

possible.  YiYiQ^  or  lines,  in  case  of  opening  a  new  street,  and  with  those 

whose  land  or  interest  therein  will  be  specially  damaged  by 
change  of  grade  of  highway,  and  with  those  who  will  be 
specially  benefited  by  said  improvement  or  change  of  grade, 
as  to  the  payment  of  the  entire  amount  to  be  assessed  as  bet- 
terments for  said  improvement,  and  the  respective  amounts. 

Shall  secure  written  Qr  proportlous  thcrcof  whlch  each  person  so  benefited  will 

evidence  of  such  X         Jr  ^  X 

agreement.  pay  J    aud  sccurc  ft'om  each  such  owner,  or  person,  proper 

Avritten  evidence  of  such  agreement. 
How  to  proceed  when      Sec.  8.     If  sald  board  of  street  commissioners  fail  to  affree 

agreement  cannot  *^ 

^^  ^^'^'  with  any  owner  of  said  land  or  interest  therein,  or  with  any 

of  the  parties  w^ho  in  their  opinion  should  be  assessed  for  any 
benefits  on  account  of  said  proposed  improvement,  not  includ- 

shaii appraise        ino;  cost  of  constructiou,  they  shall,  after  the  requisite  notice 

damages  and  assess         <->  i  ,J  i  x 

betterments,  iww.  g^y^jj  j^g  hereiubefore  provided,  proceed  to  appraise  all  dam- 
ages therefor  to  the  persons  entitled  to  such  damages  and  to 
assess  upon  the  parties  or  land  specially  benefited  by  said 
improvement,  betterments  or  benefits  for  said  improvement, 
not  including  the  cost  of  construction,  in  proportion  to 
the  damages  and  benefits  to  each  respectively,  and  shall  fur-« 
nish  a  proper  certificate  thereof  signed  by  a  majority  of  said 
board  to  the  city  clerk,  who  shall  forthwith  cause  the  same 

Shall  publish  such   to  be  published  at  least  twice  in  two  or  more  of  the  daily 

assessment  and 

appra'sai,  how.      ncwspapcrs  published  in  the  City  of  Hartford,  at  least  four j 
days  before  the  same  shall  be  acted  on  by  said  court,  and  th( 
Shall  lodge  certiH-    Original  certificate  shall  be  lodged  on  file  in  the  city  clerk' 

cate  thereof  with 

city  clerk.  officc  \  aud  thc  same  shall  be  binding  and  conclusive  upon  all 

parties  if  said  court  order  said  improvement,  unless  appealed' 
from  and  changed  upon  said  appeal  as  by  law  provided,  and 
when  any  appeal  shall  be  taken,  said  board  shall  instruct  and] 

Shall  aid  city  attor-  aid  thc  cltv  attomcy  in  the  matter  of  said  appeal,  until  th< 

ney  in  appeals.  ./  ^  x  x  ; 

same  shall  be  determined. 
Shall  make  report  to      Seo.  9.     Whcnevcr  all  pcrsous  who  are  entitled  to  compen- 

council,  when. 

sation  for  damages,  or  liable  for  betterments  on  account  of  an^ 
of  said  improvements,  shall  agree  upon  the  respective  amounts 
to  be  received  or  paid  by  them  therefor ;  or  when  they  shall 
deliver  a  writlen  waiver  of  their  right  of  appeal  to  said  boar 


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HIGHWAY    DEPARTMENT.  275 

at  any  time  within  the  limit  allowed  by  law  for  an  ai)i^eal, 
said  board  shall  immediately  thereafter  make  their  report  to 
said  Court  of  Common  Council,  and  in  cases  where  an  appeal 
or  appeals  are  taken  as  aforesaid,  as  soon  as  practicable  after 
such  proceedings  are  determined.  _ 

Sec.  10.  Their  report  shall  set  forth  the  amount  of  damages  ^^^f^^^*;'"""'  '*"*'' 
agreed  upon  with  each  of  said  owners  of  land,  and  the  amount 
of  benefits  agreed  to  be  paid  by  the  respective  parties  bene- 
fited by  said  improvement  in  cases  of  agreement  with  all  par- 
ties ;  or  in  case  of  assessment  by  said  board,  of  the  amount  of 
damages  appraised  or  betterments  assessed  upon  each  of  the 
parties  entitled  to  such  damages  or  liable  for  such  better- 
ments, or  upon  an  appeal  the  amount  fixed  by  the  court  or 
judge  hearing  the  same,  so  that  all  damages  thus  ascertained 
may  become  a  part  of  the  expense  to  be  assessed,  and  all 
betterments  may  be  thus  assessed  upon  the  persons  or  prop- 
erty specially  benefited  thereby.  And  said  board  shall  also 
embrace  in  their  report  a  written  descriptive  survey  of  the  Report  shaii  contain 

^  ^  "  a  description  and 

proposed  improvement  concerning  which   said  proceedings  prSent.'"" 

have  been  had,  and  such  a  vote,  resolution,  or  ordinance  as  in 

their  judgment  ought  to  l)e  passed  in  order  to  establish  and 

carry  out   said   improvement,  fully   describing  therein   the 

width,  curve,  boundaries,  grade,  and  building  lines,  and  such 

other   particulars   of   said    improvement   as   the   case   may 

require,  and  includini):  an  order  for  the  payment,  or  deposit  shaii  include  order 

1  '  »  jr     »/  J  -L  for  payment  or 

at   some  place  named  therein,  of  the  amount  of  damages  Sr^onl'sTof 

warrant  for  collec- 

appraised  to  the  respective  owners  of  any  land  or  interest  ti«°  °f  betterments. 
therein  required  for  said  improvement,  and  an  order  to  the 
mayor  to  issue  his  warrant  forthwith  to  collect  all  said  assess- 
ments for  said  betterments  assessed  as  aforesaid. 

Said  court  may  alter  said  proposed  vote,  if  it  see  cause,  common  council 

•^  i        X  ^  may  aitgy  yote^ 

provided  no  change  be  made  in  the  lines  or  location  of  the  '^''^''• 
improvement  which  will  require  taking  more  or  a  greater 
interest  in  any  land  for  said  improvement  than  shown  by 
said  survey  and  report,  and  provided  that  no  change  of  grade 
of  highway  be  made  that  shall  occasion  greater  damage  than 
the  grade  shown  by  said  survey  and  report,  and  shall  there- 


276  HIGHWAY    DEPARTMENT. 

upon  adopt  such  vote  or  resolution,  with   or  without  such 
alteration,  or  reject  the  same. 
Laud  appraised  may      Sec.  11.     Whcnevcr  auv  votc  establishiuij;  any  public  im- 

be  taken  tor  public  *'  o  ./      i. 

use,  when.  provemcnt  has  been  passed  as  aforesaid,  and  the  proper  com- 

pensation has  been  paid  to  or  deposited  for  the  owners  of  any 
land  taken  for  such  improvement,  then  said  land  shall  be 
immediately  open  and  subject  to  the  public  use  on  such  con- 
ditions as  said  court  may  impose,  and  shall  be,  to  all  intents, 
appropriated  therefor,  unless  the  public  work  or  improve- 
ment require  the  previous  sanction  of  a  city  meeting,  under 
the  sixth  section  of  the  city  charter,  in  which  case  such  ap- 
propriation shall  not  take  effect  until  such  sanction  has  been 
obtained. 

Damages,  how  Sec.  12.     If  auv  owuer  of  said  land,  or  interest  therein,  is 

deposited  in  case  of  "^  '  ' 

certain  parties.  ^^^^  ^  rcsidcnt  of  thc  City  of  Hartford,  or  upon  due  inquiry 
cannot  be  found  therein,  or  is  a  lunatic,  or  idiot,  or  minor  with- 
out a  guardian,  or  in  any  w^ay  incapacitated  to  receive  said 
compensation,  or  is-  unknown,  or  is  entitled  only  to  a  contin- 
gent or  uncertain  interest,  said  court  may  prescribe  in  such 
particular  case  how  and  where  the  compensation  due  such 
owner  shall  be  placed  or  deposited  subject  to  the  lawful  call 
of  said  owner  or  his  duly  authorized  agent  or  representative. 

Assessment,  for  Sec.  13.     Bcforc  thc  fiual  passagc  of  the  vote  or  resolution 

construction  to  bo 

made  separately,  laylug  out  any  public  work  the  expense  of  construction  of 
which  may  be  assessed  as  betterments  upon  the  persons  or 
land  specially  benefited  thereby,  the  assessment  of  such  bet 
terments  shall  be  made  separately  from  the  assessment  o 
benefits  for  land  taken,  and  shall  be  made  as  follows :  When 
said  vote  or  resolution  shall  have  been  published  as  required 
in  the  first  section  of  this  ordinance,  the  same  shall  be  by  the 
said  court  referred  to  the  board  of  street  commissioners  for 

Boardof  street oom  assessment,  and  said  board  shall  thereupon  proceed  to  esti- 

missioners  shall 

Tarw^'uTartVeT*^  uiatc  thc  expeusc  of  construction,  and  shall  assess  the  justj 

specially  benefited.  .  n  ^  i   •     i 

proportion  oi  such  expense,  which  any  person  or  persons, 
private  or  corporate,  including  railroad  corporations^  occupj^- 
ing  streets  w^ith  their  tracks,  or  any  piece  of  land  specially 

1  City  of  Bridgeport  v.  N.  Y.  &  N.  H.  R.  R.  Co.,  36  Conn.,  255. 


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HIGHWAY    DEPARTMENT.  277 

benefited  by  said   improvement,  should   respectively  defray 

and  make  a  proper  written  certificate  of  said  assessment  so  £;"^ade.°""'"*^'' 

made,  with  names  and  amounts  assessed  upon  the  respective 

parties   or  lands,  and   describing  by  metes  and  bounds,  or 

otherwise,  the  land  on  account  of  which  said  assessments  are  certificate,  how 

'  signed.        

made,  and  signed  by  a  majority  of  said  board,  and  cause  the 
same  to  be  published  for  four  days  at  least  in  two  or  more  how  published, 
daily  newspapers  published  within  said  city,  with  a  notice 
affixed  to  said  certificate  that  any  person  aggrieved  may,  ^^^^j^^^^^if* 
within  ten  days  after  the  day  of  first  publication  of  said  ''^*^" 
notice,  lodge  with  the  clerk  of  said  board  a  written  statement 
of  his  objections  to  said  assessment.     After  the  expiration  of  ^J^^^*^;;"^f,'^yM|;d 
said  ten  days,  said  board  shall  revise  said  assessment  with  *  ^  ''''^^^"'®"  • 
reference  to  said  objections,  at  which  time  said  parties  inter- 
ested may  appear  and  be  heard  thereon,  and  said  board  shall 
thereupon  report   their   doings   and  final  assessment,   duly  ^*»*^J,|j)!|f *"'«»*<"■'"'■ 
signed  by  a  majority  of  said  board,  to  the  Court  of  Common 
Council,  and  said   court  shall   then  accept  said  report  and 
assessments  and  order  the  same  to  be  published  twice  at  least  Sessment*"pu'^''' 
in  two  or  more  daily  papers  published  in  the  City  of  Hart-  ^'' " ' 
ford.     After  expiration  of  the  time  limited  for  appeal,  if  no  Piuai  action. 
appeal  be  taken;   or  after  all  proceedings  on  appeals  have 
been  concluded,  the  board  of  street  commissioners  shall  report 
the  facts  to  said  court,  with  their  recommendations  thereon 
accompanied,  in  case  the  assessments  have  been  changed  or 
modified  upon  appeal,  by  a  schedule  of  the  assessments  as 
finally  determined,  and  said  court  shall  thereupon  proceed  to 
pass  or  reject  said  vote  or  resolution,  whereupon,  if  passed, 
said  assessments  shall  be  final  and  conclusive  upon  all  parties 
in  interest. 

Sec.  14.     Upon  the  final  layout  or  completion  of  the  con-  Benefits,  when 

payable. 

struction  of  any  such  public  work,  the  board  of  street  com- 
missioners shall  give  notice  thereof,  and  that  said  benefits  are 
due  and  payable,  by  publication  twice  in  two  daily  news- 
papers published  in  said  city,  and  all  benefits  assessed  there- 
for shall  be  immediately  due  and  payable. 

Sec.  15.     If  the   actual   cost  of  the   construction  of  any  what  deduction 

•^     allowed. 

public  work  shall  be  less  than  the  sum  estimated  by  the  board 


278  HIGHWAY    DEPARTMENT. 

of  street  commissioners  and  assessed  upon  the  parties  bene- 
fited, each  of  the  parties  so  assessed  shall  be  entitled  to  a  pro- 
portionate deduction  from  his  assessment. 
Sade  from  assess.        ^^^-  ^^-     ^^  ^^7  P^^^son  upon  whom  any  assessment  of  bet- 
njent,wuen.         tcrmcnts  has  been  made  as   herein   provided  shall  pay  the 
same  within  five  days  after  the  first  publication  provided  for 
in  section  fourteen  of  this  ordinance,  he  shall  be  entitled  to  a 
deduction  or  repayment  of  four  per  cent,  on  the  amount  of 
When  liable  to       hls  asscssmcnt  to  be  deducted  therefrom.     At  the  end  of  said 

collection  iu  full. 

five  days  he  shall  be  liable  to  pay  the  same  in  full. 
Duty  of  mayor  to        Sec.  17.     As  soou  as  auv  asscssmcut  of  betterments  made 

issue  Lis  warrant  for  *^ 

mShoVlnr'''  in  accordance  with  this  ordinance  becomes  due  and  payable, 

it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  mayor  of  said  city  to  issue  his 

warrant   directed  to   any  officer   or  member  of  the   police 

requiring  him  to  proceed  to  collect  the  same  in  the   same 

manner  as  collectors  of  public  taxes  are  by  law  empowered 

to  proceed  in  the  collection  of  taxes,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty 

of  said  person  to  execute  said  warrant  and  pay  over  to  the 

Jtcted'tTbeVaw  to  ^^^J  trcasurcr  the  assessments  by  him  collected,  and  he  shall 

city  treasurer.       coHect  aud  pay  ovcr  the  same  fees  as   sheriifs  are  by  law 

What  fees  allowed    allowed  upou  collectlou  by  execution  and  levying  of  execution 

and  how  paid.  -t  »/  JO 

whenever  he  shall  levy  upon  propert}"  for  said  assessments.    ■ 
Assessments  for         Sec.  18.     All  asscssmeuts  of  betterments  for  any  of  sai(M 

betterments  a  lieu  •' 

upon  land  benefited,  p^jjijc  Improvements  shall  be  made  therefor  on  account  of  the 
land  or  property  liable  to  assessment  and  specially  benefited 
thereby.  Every  assessment  of  betterments  for  any  of  th( 
public  improvements  embraced  in  this  ordinance  shall  be 

Lien  expires  unless  Hen  ou  thc  land  ou  accouut  of  which  said  assessment  is  mad^ 

ccrtiflcatc  is  filed,  j 

when  and  how.  ^^j^til  thc  samc  is  fully  paid,  which  said  lien  shall  commence 
and  attach  to  said  land  from  the  time  of  the  passage  by  th< 
Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  vote  laying  out  or  ordering 
the  construction  of  said  work :  provided,  that  the  same  shall 
not  remain  a  lien  thereon  for  a  longer  period  than  three 
months  from  the  final  layout  or  completion  of  such  work  oa 
improvement,  unless  the  board  of  street  commissioners  shall 
within  that  time  lodge  with  the  town  clerk  of  the  town 
Hartford,  for  record,  a  certificate,  signed  by  the  clerk  of  sa 


HIGHWAY    DEPARTMENT.  279 

board,  describing  the  premises,  the  amount  assessed,  and  the 
improvement  for  which  it  was  assessed. 

Sec.  19.     Such  recorded  liens  shall  be   foreclosed   in   the  J;^*^"^^^,*'^^ 
name  and  behalf  of  the  city  by  the  city  attorney  before  the 

City  Court  of  said  city  in  the  same  manner  that  a  mortgage  

may  be  foreclosed,  as  soon  as  the  same  can  be  done,  unless 
said  assessment  is  paid  or  said  Court  of  Common  Council 
shall  otherwise  order. 

Sec.  20.     In  case  of  said  assessments  being  made  by  said  b^soirfo/lfse'T*^ 
board  directly  upon  any  land,  said  land  shall  be  liable  to  be  °'^° '  ^  *"*' 
sold  to  pay  the  same  unless  said  assessments  shall  be  paid 
within  six  months  after  public  notice  thereof  has  been  given,  what  notice  to  be 
and  said  court  shall  give  fifteen  days  public  notice  in  two  or 
more  daily  newspapers  published  in  the  City  of  Hartford  of 
the  amount  of  said  assessment,  and  the  time  and  place  where 
such  sale  will  be  made,  and  at  the  time  and  place  named,  any 
police  offi  cer  to  whom  the  warrant  of  the  mayor  is  directed  who  may  sen. 
and  delivered  to  collect  such  assessment,  may  sell  said  lan^J, 
or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  necessary  to  pay  said  assess- 
ment and  expenses  of  said  sale,  and  give  a  title  thereto  to 
the  purchaser,  as  in  case  of  a  sale  of  land  for  taxes,  and  the  surplus  to  be  paid 

J-  '  'to  owner. 

balance  of  the  purchase  money,  if  any,  pay  over  to  the  owner 
of  said  land. 

Sec.  21.     The  vote  or  ordinance  establishing;  or  discontinu-  vote  establishing  or 

cj  discontinuing  high- 

ing  any  highway  or  street  in  the  City  of  Hartford,  and  every  way  io'^be^r^corK" 
survey  of  any  new  highway  or  street  approved  by  the  board 
of  street  commissioners  and  Court  of  Common  Council,  shall 
be  recorded  in  a  city  highway  record  book  kept  for  that  pur- 
pose by  the  city  clerk. 

Sec.  22.     Turnpike  roads  within  the  City  of  Hartford  shall.  Turnpike  roads  in 

■t  «/  city  subject  to  con- 

be  subject  to  the  control  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council  for  common^councii. 

purposes  of  city  improvement  to  the  same  extent  as  other 

highways. 

Sec.  23.     Whenever  the  owner  or  occupant  of  any  land 

frontinp;  upon  any  street  or  highway  in  this  city  shall  neglect  street comniission. 

O       i.  >/  O  J  •/  o  ers  may  make  or 

to  make  or  pave  any  sidewalk  or  gutter  within  the  time  and  Xn'  '"^•''^''"'' 
in  the  manner  ordered  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  or 
shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  keep  his  sidcw^alk  in  good  repair,  it 


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HIGHWAY    DEPARTMENT. 


Cost  of  such  making 
or  repair  to  be  a  lien 
on  premises  liable 
therefor. 


Lien  expires  unless 
recorded,  when  and 
how. 


Lien,  how  foreclosed 
or  collected. 


Duties  of  board  • 
street  commis- 
sioners. 


Shall  manage  public 
works  according  to 
order  of  common 
council. 


Shall  make  report 
of  expenditures 
monthly. 


Shall  make  provis- 
ional contracts 
subject  to  orders  of 
common  council. 


Shall  superintend 
lamps. 


Keep  record  of 
complaints. 


Shall  conform  to 
plans  of  city 
surveyor. 


City  surveyor,  how 
and  when  appointed 
and  term  of  office. 


shall  bo  the  duty  of  the  board  of  street  commissioners  to 
make  or  repair  the  same,  and  the  cost  of  making,  or  of 
repairs,  and  interest  thereon,  shall  be  and  remain  a  lien  in 
favor  of  the  city  upon  the  adjoining  premises  which  are  liable 
to  be  assessed  therefor,  but  a  certificate  thereof  shall  be 
recorded,  as  is  provided  in  case  of  assessments  for  betterments 
in  section  eighteen  of  this  ordinance,  and  said  lien  may  be 
foreclosed  in  the  same  manner  that  a  mortgage  may  be  fore- 
closed, or  said  city  may  recover  the  same  of  the  party  or  j)arties 
liable  therefor  by  an  action  before  the  City  Court  of  said  city. 

Sec.  24.  Said  board  shall  in  executing  public  works  con- 
form to  the  votes  or  orders  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council, 
and  to  all  general  rules  which  said  court  may  adopt  relative 
to  the  locality,  measurements,  materials,  and  management  of 
all  public  works.  Said  board  shall  keep  an  account  of  all 
expenditures  made  in  its  department,  which  shall  be  open  at 
all  times  to  the  inspection  of  any  member  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Council,  and  shall  make  report  to  said  court  of  such 
expenditure,  at  least  once  a  month,  unless  excused  therefrom. 
It  shall  make  provisional  contracts,  subject  to  the  approval  of 
said  court,  for  such  public  works  connected  with  highways, 
streets,  or  thoroughfares,  and  the  erection  or  lighting  of  street 
lamps  and  repairs  of  the  same,  as  ought  to  be,  in  the  judg- 
ment of  said  board,  let  out  to  contractors,  and  shall  keep  a 
record  of  complaints,  and  faithfully  enter  therein  all  com- 
plaints made  to  it  concerning  streets,  highways,  lamps,  and 
public  places,  and  the  breach  of  city  ordinances  relating 
thereto ;  and  shall  be  diligent  in  ascertaining  the  facts  in  sucM 
matters  of  complaint,  and  in  taking  just  and  necessary  action 
relative  thereto.  Said  board  shall  consult  and  conform  to  the 
plans  of  the  city  surveyor  in  constructing  public  works  unlesi 
otherwise  ordered  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  an 
shall  have  power  to  do  all  things  which  shall  be  necessary  t 
be  done  in  order  to  enforce  such  portions  of  any  city  ordi 
nance  as  shall  be  within  the  scope  of  its  official  duties. 

Sec.  25.  A  city  surveyor  shall  be  annually  appointed  by  a 
concurrent  vote  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  and  shall 
hold  his  office  for  one  year  and  until  his  successor  is  appointe 


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GOATS    AND    CATTLE.  281 

and  qualified.     He  shall  have  the  custody  of  all  the  maps  and 
plans  of  the  public  works  of  the  city  not  expressly  entrusted 
to  other  officers  or  persons ;  shall  make  and  prepare,  under  »u«es  of. 
the  direction  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  or  by  request 
of  the  board  of  street  commissioners,  all  surveys,  maps,  pro-  ^-^ 

files,  calculations,  drawings,  estimates,  and  specifications, 
I'cquired  for  the  use  of  the  city  or  its  departments,  and  per- 
form all  such  services  in  the  surveying  or  engineering  depart- 
ment, as  may  be  required  of  him  by  said  court  or  commis- 
sioners. 

Sec.  26.     No  street,  highway  or  alley  in  the  City  of  Hart-  no  street  or  aiiey 

'         ^  "J  ^  'J  shall  be  opened  less 

ford  less  than  forty  feet  wide  shall  hereafter  be  opened  to  the  ^ortKuho'I.t'^''' 

,,,,,,..  ,  .  ,  ,  license  of  Court  of 

public  by  dedication  or  otherwise,  by  any  person  or  private  common  councn. 
corporation,  nor  in  any  case  except  by  license  of  the  Court 
of  Common  Council  first  obtained. 

Sec.  27.     If  any  person  shall  without  authority  from  the  '^ublllfutts^how 
board  of  street  commissioners  wilfully  extinguish  the  lights  ''""''•'^• 
in  any  public  lamps  in  the  City  of  Hartford,  such  person  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  to  the  city  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  nor 
more  than  five  dollars  for  each  offence. 


.  CHAPTEE  XT. 


GOATS  AND  CATTLE. 


Pasturing  of  goats  in  highway  pro- 
hibited. 

Pasturing  or  running  at  large  of  cattle, 
etc.,  prohibited. 

Penalty  for  violation  of  ordinance. 


Goats,  cattle,  etc.,  may  be  impounded, 

when. 
Poundage,  fees  of. 
Unless  reclaimed,  how  sold. 
Penalty  for  poand-brea«h. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford  : 

Section  1.     Every  person  who  shall  pasture  any  goat  in  pasturing  of  goat, 
any  public  street,  highway,  or  place,  within  the  limits  of  the  '''''•*^*- 
City  of  Hartford,  and  every  person  who  shall  cause  or  suffer 


282  GOATS    AND    CATTLE. 

any  goat  owned  or  kept  by  him  or  her  to  run  at  large  or  to 

be  pastured  in  any  public  highway  or  place  within  the  limits 
Penalty.  of  Said  city,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one 

dollar  nor  more  than  ten  dollars  for  each  offence. 
Pasturing  of  cattle       Sec.  2.     Every  pcrson  who  shall  pasture  any  cow,  calf,  ox, 
hibited.  ^j,  horse,  within  the  limits  of  any  public  street,  highway,  or 

place,  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  shall  forfeit 
Penalty.  and  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  dollar  nor  more  than  five 

dollars  for  each  offence. 
Cattle  running  at        Sec  3.     Evcrv  pcrsou  who  shall  cause  or  allow  any  cow, 

large  prohibited.  *'    ^  ^  ^ 

calf,  ox,  or  horse,  belonging  to  him  or  her  to  run  at  large 

within  the  limits  of  any  public  street,  highway,  or  place, 
Penalty.  wlthln  thc  llmlts  of  said  city,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  of 

not  less  than  one  dollar  nor  more  than  ten  dollars  for  each 

offence. 
Duty  of  city  attorney      Sec.  4.     It  shall  bc  thc  dutv  of  thc  cltv  attomev  to  collect 

to  collect  fines.  *^  ^  ^ 

the  fines  imposed  in  the  three  preceding  sections  whenever 
complaint  shall  be  made  to  him,  supported  by  satisfactory 
evidence  that  such  offence  has  been  committed. 

Impounding,  gEC.  5.     Any  person    finding    any   horses,   sheep,   goats, 

swine,  geese,  or  neat  cattle,  going  at  large  within  the  City  o: 
Hartford,  or  being  pastured  within  any  public  street,  high-; 
way,  or  place,  in  said  city,  may  impound  such  animal  in  any 
pound  within  said  city,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  pound 
keeper  to  receive  the  same,  and  the  owner,  keeper,  or  othe™ 
person   claiming  the  animal   so   impounded,  shall  pay  the 

Poundage  fees,  to    pouud-kecper  bcforc  he  shall  be  entitled  to  take  such  animal, 

whom  paid.  ^  ■•■  WA 

twenty-five  cents  for  every  goose,  and  one  dollar  for  everyB 
other  animal,  together  with  the  expenses  of  keeping  such 
animal,  not  exceeding  fifty  cents  a  day  ;  of  which  the  perso 
impounding  said  animal  shall  receive  tw^elve  and  a  half  centi 
for  every  goose  and  fifty  cents  for  every  other  animal  by  hi 
impounded.     If  said  animal  is  not  claimed  by  any  person 
rightfully  entitled  so  to  do  within  five  days  after  the  same 
shall  have  been  impounded,  the  pound-master  may  advertis 
the  same  for  public  sale  in  at  least  two  newspapers  publishe 
Cattle  impounded,   in  thc  City  of  Hartford,  reasonably  describing  such  anima 

when  sold  and  how.  *>  ;  i/  o 

and  stating  the  time  and  place  of  the  sale,  three  days  befor 


J 


3 


GOATS    AND    CATTLE.  283 

the  time  fixed  therein  for  such  sale ;  at  which  time  and  place 
said  pound-master  may  make  public  sale  of  said  animal,  and 
after  applying  the  proceeds  of  said  sale  to  his  own  fees  and 
expenses  on  account  of  such  animal,  shall  pay  the  balance 
thereof  to  the  city  treasury,  where  the  said  balance  shall  _ 

remain  for  the  benefit  of  the  lawful  owner  of  said  animal, 
and  payable  to  him,  without  interest,  upon  satisfactory  proof 
of  such  ownership.  The  pound-master  shall  keep  a  record  of 
his  doings  and  report  the  same  to  the  Court  of  Common 
Council  once  in  six  months  at  least. 

Sec.  6.  The  penalty  for  pound-breach,  or  for  any  rescue  or  ^^^*i'^/^^^^ 
any  attempt  at  rescue  from  a  pound-master,  shall  be  a  forfeit- 
ure of  twenty  dollars,  recoverable  for  the  use  of  the  city  upon 
this  ordinance.  Nothing  herein  contained  shall  in  any  man- 
ner affect  the  remedy  of  replevin,  as  the  same  is  applied  in 
ordinary  cases  where  beasts-  are  impounded, 


284 


SALARIES   AND    FEES. 


CHAPTEE   XVI. 


SALARIES  AND  FEES. 


Salaries  of— 
Mayor,  City  Treasurer,  Auditor,  City 
Clerk,  Clerk  of  Common  Council  Board, 
Recorder,  Judge  of  Police  Court,  Clerk 
of  Police  Court,  Messenger  of  Police 
Court,  Prosecuting  Attorney,  City  Sur- 
veyor. 

Chairman  and  Assistant  Chairman  of 
Health  Committee. 

President  of  Board  of  Water  Commis- 
sioners. 

Superintendent  of  Streets. 

Clerk  of  Board  of  Street  Commissioners, 

Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Fire  Commissioners. 

( lerk  of  the  Board  of  Police  Commis- 
sioners. 


Fire  Marshal. 

Messenger  of  Board  of  Aldermen. 

Messenger  of  Common  Council  Board. 

Port  Warden. 

Board  of  Street  Commissioners. 

Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures. 

Registrars  of  Voters. 

Associate  Judge  of  Police  Court. 

Salaries,  when  paid. 

Fees  of  City  Marshal. 

Fees  of  Messeoger  of  City  Courr. 

Fees  of  City  Attorney. 

Fees  of  City  Jurors. 

Payment  of  office  rent  regulated. 

City  officers  not  to  contract  indebtedness. 


Salaries  of  city 
officers. 


Mayor. 

City  Treasurer. 
City  Auditor. 
City  Clerk. 


Clerk  of  Coininoii 
Council  Board. 


Recorder  of  City 
Court. 

Judge  of  Police 

Court. 

Clerk  of  Police 

Court. 

Messenger  of  Police 
Court. 

Prosecuting 
Attorney. 

City  Surveyor. 


Chairman  Health 
Committee. 


Assistant  Chairmau 
Health  Committee. 


President  Board  of 
Water  Commis- 
sioners. 


n 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford : 

Section  1.  That  the  following  sums  shall  be  paid  as  sala- 
ries and  fees  to  the  several  city  officers  herein  named  :  to  the 
Mayor,  fifteen  hundred  dollars  a  year. 
City  Treasurer,  one  thousand  dollars  a  year. 
City  Auditor,  one  thousand  dollars  a  year. 
City  Clerk,  eight  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  a  year. 
Clerk  of  the  Common  Council  Board,  four  hundred  dolhirs 

a  year. 

Eecorder  of  the  City  Court,  twelve  hundred  dolhirs  a  year. 
Judge  of  the  Police  Court,  one  thousand  dollars  a  year. 
Clerk  of  the  Police  Court,  eight  hundred  dollars  a  year. 
Messenger  of  the  Police  Court,  three  hundred  dollars  a  year. 
Prosecuting  Attorney,  one  thousand  dollars  a  year. 
City  Sui'veyor,  two  thousand  dollars  a  year. 
Chairman  of  the  Health  Committee,  six  hundred  dollars  a 

year. 
Assistant  Chairman  of  the  Health  Committee,  four  hundred 

dollars  a  year. 
President   of   the   Board    of   Water   Commissioners,   two 

thousand  dollars  a  year. 


SALARIES    AND    PEES.  285 

Superintendent  of  Streets,  two  thousand  dollars  a  year  and  11*^2!''"'^''"'*' 
four  hundred  dollars  for  hire  of  horse  and  carriage.  - 

Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Street  Commissioners,  fifteen  hun-  S^lLfssiolerr' 
dred  dollars  a  year. 

Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Fire  Commissioners,  two  hundred  commfs"sSJi!!__ 
and  fifty  dollars  a  year. 

Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Police  Commissioners,  two  hundred  commhsioS''' 
and  fifty  dollars  a  year. 

Fire  Marshal,  four  hundred  dollars  a  year.  Fire  Marshal. 

Messenger  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen,  one  hundred  dollars  Kmfn.^""'*"' 
a  year. 

Messenger  of  the  Common  Council  Board,  one  hundred  coundfBoa^rr"'*'" 
dollars  a  year. 

Port  Warden,  twenty-five  dollars  a  year.  port  warden. 

Sec.  2.     The  President  of  the  Board  of  Street  Commission-  fScommTs^**^ 
ers  shall  be  paid  two  thousand  dollars  a  year,  for  the  salaries  ''""^"" 
of  said  commissioners,  said  sum  to  be  divided  between  the 
members  of  said  Board  in  such  manner  as  they  shall  appoint. 

The  Sealer  of  Weights  and   Measures  shall  be  paid  five  KurTs!'^''*'  *""^ 
hundred  dollars  a  year  in  addition  to  the  fees  established  by 
ordinance. 

The  Registrars  of  Voters  shall  receive  annually,  as  com-  ^Xs""^'  "^ 
pensatiou  for  the  discharge  of  the  duties  of  their  office,  so  far 
as  city  elections  are  concerned,  the  sum  of  seven  hundred 
dollars  each,  the  same  to  be  paid  in  equal  installments  on  the 
second  Mondays  of  January  and  April  of  each  year.  Said 
compensation  to  said  registrars  shall  be  in  full  payment  for 
the  discharge  of  said  duties  and  of  any  and  all  expenses 
which  shall  be  incurred  by  said  registrars  in  relation  to  said 
city  election,  except  the  printing  of  the  lists  of  voters,  the 
expense  of  which  shall  be  paid  by  the  city. 

There  shall  be  paid  to  the  Associate  Judge  of  the  Police  Associate  judge  of 

J-  o  the  Police  Court. 

Court  three  dollars  and  thirty-four  cents  per  day  for  every 
day  that  he  shall  serve  in  the  place  of  the  judge  thereof 

Sec.  3.     The  salaries  established  by  the  two  preceding  sec-  salary  to  be  in  fuu 

•  ./  jr  o  for  the  performance 

tions  shall  be  in  full  for  the  performance  of  all  official  duties  «^'^'"'""«^- 
unless  otherAvise  provided  by  the  laws  of  the  state  or  ordi- 
nances of  the  city ;  and  the  city  auditor  shall  draw  his  order 


286  SALARIES   AND    FEES. 


Orders  for  salaries,  monthlv  Oil  the  citv  treasurGi'  for  the  payment  of  the  same 

when  and  how  *'  *>  X      ./ 

drawn.  (except  ill  case  of  registrars  of  voters)  ;  and  when  any  office 

is  vacated  during  or  before  the  end  of  any  month,  then  for 
the  proper  proportional  part  thereof. 
Sec.  4.     There  shall  be  paid, 
Marsi?"^         To  thc  City  Marshal — 

For  each  day's  attendance  on  the  City  Court,  two  dollars 

and  fifty  cents ; 
For  summoning  a  jury,  or  serving  legal  process,  the  same 

fees  allowed  to  sheriffs  for  like  services ; 
For  warning  a  city  meeting,  three  dollars ; 
For  warning  a  meeting  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council, 
five  dollars. 
of  City  court"^^'    ^^  ^^  Messcugcr  of  the  City  Court — 

For  each  day's  attendance,  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents. 
K^ey^"-^         To  the  City  Attorney- 

For  each  fine  collected  without  suit,  fifty  cents ; 

For  all  moneys  collected  for  debts  and  paid  into  the  city 

treasury,  two  and  a  half  per  cent. ; 
For  all  fines  amounting  to  or  exceeding  twenty-five  dol- 
lars collected  by  suit,  six  dollars,  in  addition  to  the  bill 
of  costs  collected;  m 

For  all  fines  less  than  that  sum,  four  dollars,  provideoBI 
that  the  amount  paid  shall  not  exceed  the  amount 
collected ; 
For  appearing  by  request  of  the  chief  of  police  in  a  cas( 
before  the  Police  Court,  the  same  fees  allowed   th^ 
state's  attorney  in  the  Superior  Court ; 
For  complaint  and  attendance  before  the  Police  Court 
the  same  fees  as  allowed  grand  jurors  for  like  services. 
Fees  of  Jurors.       To  juroi's  ill  thc  City  Court,  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents  pe^ 
day,  and  travel  as  allowed  jurors  in  the  Superior  Coun 
No.office  rent  to  be       Qec.  5.     IN^o  suiii  shall  bc  paid  by  any  city  officer  for  reiil 
of  office,  unless  such  office  shall  have  been  hired  by  the  direoj 
tion  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council. 
uacTindebtedu°e"s        '^^^'  ^-     "'^^  officcr  of  thc  city  who  has  a  stated  salary  foi 
cferk wre.""''-^  *^°'  hls  sci'vices  shall  contract  any  indebtedness  against  the  citi 


MISFEASANCE   IN   OFFICE.  287 

for  extra  services  of  any  kind  or  for  clerk  hire  or  shall  have 
power  to  make  the  city  liable  for  any  such  services  or  clerk 
hire  without  previous  authority  or  direction  from  the  Court 
of  Common  Council. 


CHAPTER  XYII. 


MISFEASANCE  IN  OFFICE. 


Members  of  council  and  city  officers  pro- 
hibited from  certain  acts. 
Inquiry,  how  instituted. 


Citizen  may  make  charges. 
Hearing,  how  proceeded  with. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford : 

Section  1.     Any  member  of  either  branch  of  the  Court  of  JJ^S'Sncii^rohiS- 
Common  Council  who  shall  bargain  for,  exact,  or  receive  from  acts. 
any  person,  or  corporation,  any  fee,  compensation,  or  reward 
of  an}^  kind,  for  drawing  any  petition,  or  remonstrance  to  the 
Court  of  Common  Council,  or  any  committee  thereof,  or  for 
acting  as  counsel,  attorney,  or  agent,  for  such  person  or  cor- 
poration, in  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  or  before  any 
committee  thereof;  or  for  any  advice  given,  services  rendered, 
or  acts  done,  in  connection  with  any  petition,  vote,  resolution,  shan  on  «)aviction 
or  ordinance,  or  any  other  business  coming  before  said  court,  °®*'^" 
or  who  shall  be  guilty  of  any  other  misfeasance  in  office,  or 
any  corruption,  shall  be  expelled  from  office. 

Sec.  2.     Any  other  officer  of  the  city  who  shall  bargain  for,  JJ'/n"  misdemeanor 

J  •  ly  1  •  J        r»  to  be  removed  from 

exact,  or  receive  any  tee,  compensation,  or  reward  oi   any  office. 

kind,  for  any  official  act,  or  for  refraining  from  any  official 

act,  or  who  shall  be  guilty  of  any  other  misdemeanor  in  office, 

or  corruption,  shall  be  removed  from  office. 

Sec.  3.     Whenever  either  branch  of  the  Court  of  Common  charges  of  corrup- 
tion, or  misfeas- 

Council  shall  receive  a  statement  from  any  member  thereof,  *"*'*''  ^"'^  '"***^" 
or  a  written  communication,  verified  by  oath,  from  any  citi- 
zen, charging  any  member  of  such  branch  with  corruption  or 


288 


MISFEASANCE    IN    OFFICE. 


Communicatiou, 
how  proceeded  with. 


Kxpulsion  from 
office. 


Charges  may  be 
preferred  by  any 
citizen. 


Charge,  how  made 
and  to  whom 
directed. 


Judge  may  hear  and 
give  judgment 
thereon. 


Mayor  shall  remove 
offender  from  office, 
when. 


What  exempted 
from  ordinance. 


misfeasance  in  office,  the  matter  shall  be  immediately  referred 
to  a  committee  of  three  members  of  said  branch,  and  such 
committee  shall  immediately  investigate  the  truth  of  the 
charge,  and  report  the  facts,  and  if  said  charge  shall  be  found 
to  be  true,  said  branch  shall  proceed  forthwith,  by  vote,  to 
expel  the  offending  member  from  office. 

Sec.  4.  Any  citizen  may  prefer  a  charge  against  any  city 
officer  for  corruption  or  misfeasance  in  office;  such  charge 
shall  be  in  writing  over  the  signature  of  the  person  making 
the  same,  and  verified  by  oath,  and  shall  be  directed  to  the 
recorder  of  the  City  Court,  and  served  as  civil  process  of  said 
court.  Said  judge  may  hear  such  witnesses  as  shall  be  pro- 
duced by  the  copiplainant  and  respondent,  and  may  hear 
counsel,  and  give  judgment  according  to  the  facts,  and  certify 
such  judgment  to  the  mayor.  The  mayor,  upon  receiving 
from  the  judge  of  the  City  Court  a  certificate  that  any  city 
officer  has  been  guilty  of  corruption  or  misfeasance  in  office, 
shall  forthwith  issue  his  order  removing  such  officer  from 
office,  and  such  officer  shall  thereby  be  removed  from  office. 

Sec.  5.  ]!!^othing  in  this  ordinance  shall  prevent  any  officer 
from  receiving  such  compensation  from  the  city  as  is  provided 
by  law,  or  either  branch  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council 
from  expelling  any  member  of  such  branch  for  such  cause  as 
they  may  deem  just. 


PUBLIC    CARI^IAGES. 


289 


CHAPTEE  XYIII. 


PUBLIC  CARRIAGES. 


What  shall  be  deemed  public  carriages. 

All  public  carriages  shall  be  licensed. 

Licenses,  how  issued  and  recorded. 

Auxiliary  and  temporary  licenses  may  be 
granted. 

Fee  for  temporary  license. 

Badges  and  numbers,  how  placed. 

Drivers  of  passengers  shall  obtain  and 
furnish  to  passenger  card— Same,  how 
printed. 

Drivers  of  baggage  shall  obtain  and  de- 
liver card— Same,  how  printed. 

Penalty  for  failure. 

Shall  receive  passengers  when  on  public 
stand,  or  at  railroad  or  steamboat  depot. 


Public  stands  established. 

Certain  conduct  at  stands  and  railroad  or 

steamboat  depot  prohibited. 
Rates  of  fare  for  passengers  and  baggage, 

and  forms  for  cards. 
Penalty  for  taking  illegal  fare. 
Rates  of  charges  for  baggage. 
Violations  of  ordinance,  how  punished. 
What  a  cause  for  peremptory  revocation 

of  license. 
Penalty  for  driving  or  soliciting  without 

license. 
Transportation  of  dead  bodies  in  hacks. 
Police  shall  report  all  violations  to  city 

attorney. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford : 

Section  1.  Every  hack,  omnibus,  cab,  chariot,  coach,  2me?p*ubiic 
barouche,  express  or  baggage  wagon,  or  any  other  vehicle,  ''*"*"='''• 
ww^hether  on  wheels  or  runners  (except  horse  cars),  and  drawn 
or  propelled  by  animal  power,  which  shall  be  used  in  the^City 
of  Hartford  for  the  conveyance  of  persons  or  baggage  for 
Hiire  from  place  to  place  within  said  city,  shall  be  deemed  a 
public  carriage  within  the  meaning  of  this  ordinance,  and  no 
vehicle  as  aforesaid  shall  carry  or  transport  passengers  or 
bao-ffaii'e  for  hire  as  aforesaid,  nor  shall  anv  person  or  persons  soliciting  or  carry 

*~'^     ~  '  »'    i  X  ing  passengers  or 

solicit   or  receive  passengers   or  baggage  to  be  carried  or  prSted  .m'iessi.y 

license. 

transported  as  aforesaid,  unless  duly  licensed  according  to  the 
provisions  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  2.  The  mayor  of  the  city  shall,  upon  due  application,  Jf*y°er''''  '''"* 
issue  a  license  in  writing  to  the  owner  of  any  suitable  vehicle, 
or  such  suitable  driver  as  such  owner  may  elect,  to  use  the 
same  in  the  transportation  and  carriage  of  passengers  or  bag- 
gage, or  passengers  and  baggage  from  place  to  place  within  5JJ*j*f ""°*^  ^'"'" 
said  city  for  hire,  classifying  such  vehicle  and  designating  its 
use  in  such  license.  And  all  licenses  issued  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  chapter  shall  expire  on  the  first  day  of  June 
next  succeeding  their  date,  and  may  be  sooner  revoked  by 


290 


PUBLIC    CARRIAGES. 


Licenses  may  be 
revoked  or  sus- 
pended by  niayor. 


Licenses  to  be 
recorded. 


Fees  for  recording. 


Mayor  may  grant 
auxiliary  Jiccnses. 


Rights  and  liabili- 
ties under  such 
license. 


Mayor  may  grant 
licenses  for  ashorter 
time. 


Sum  to  be  paid  for 
such  license. 


Same  sum  to  be  paid 
when  owner  not  a 
resident  of  city. 


Persons  licensed 
shall  wear  a  badge. 


the  mayor  or  suspended  for  such  time  as  he  may  think  proper 
in  his  discretion  for  any  improper  conduct  of  the  licensee 
acting  thereunder,  or  any  violation  by  him  of  the  provisions 
of  this  chapter. 

Every  license  so  gi-anted  shall,  before  it  becomes  of  any 
effect,  be  recorded  by  the  city  clerk  in  a  book  to  be  kept  by 
him  for  such  purpose,  and  the  clerk  shall  receive  from  the 
applicant  twenty-five  cents  for  recording  the  same,  and  every 
revocation  or  suspension  by  the  mayor  of  any  license  granted 
shall  be  by  the  city  clerk,  upon  notice  to  be  given  by  the 
mayor,  entered  against  the  record  of  such  license. 

The  mayor  may,  when  requested,  grant  licenses  auxiliary 
to  each  license  so  granted  to  suitable  persons  to  act  as  substi- 
tutes in  case  such  driver  or  person  licensed  shall  be  absent  or 
unable  to  act,  which  shall  be  recorded  as  aforesaid,  and  such 
persons  so  licensed  as  substitutes,  when  so  acting,  shall  have 
the  same  rights  and  j^erform  the  same  duties,  and  be  subject 
to  the  same  provisions  and  penalties  as  the  principal. 

Sec.  3.  The  mayor  shall  have  the  power  of  granting 
licenses  for  a  shorter  period  of  time,  to  be  designated  in  such 
license,  to  owners  or  drivers  of  vehicles  as  aforesaid  for  the 
purpose  of  using  said  vehicles  for  the  conveyance  of  passen« 
gers  while  some  public  occasion  may  require  an  unusual 
amount  of  travel,  which  shall  be  subject  to  the  same  pro- 
visions and  penalties  as  apply  to  regular  licenses,  and  ever^l 
person  not  a  resident  of  this  city  who  shall  be  licensed  as 
aforesaid,  shall  pay  therefor  the  sum  of  ten  dollars  for  eacl 
ordinary  hack,  coach,  carriage,  or  vehicle,  and  the  sum  o| 
twenty  dollars  for  each  omnibus  or  other  vehicle  designed  foi 
and  caj)able  of  carrying  more  than  eight  persons. 

If  such  hack,  omnibus,  o\'  other  vehicle  shall  be  owned  b] 
any  person  or  persons  not  resident  of  this  city,  then  the  sui 
named  in  this  section  shall  be  j^aid  for  such  license,  thougl 
the  person  licensed  be  a  resident  of  said  city. 

Sec.  4.  Every  person  so  licensed  when  soliciting  passen-j 
gers  or  baggage  shall  wear  upon  his  hat  or  cap  a  distinctive 
badge  indicating  the  number  of  his  license,  and  also  a  cor-j 


PUBLIC    CARRIAGES.  291 

responding  number  shall  be  placed  in  some  conspicuous  place  JJJfg^J"'' 
upon  the  carnage  which  he  drives. 

Sec  5.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  so  licensed  to  SmS acting 

^  ,         ,  1   J     •  ^h*'*  obtain  card. 

carry  either  passengers  or  baggage  or  both,  to  obtain  proper 
cards,  on  each  of  which  shall  be  plainly  printed  the  name  of^-^'^^-^-^^^^^- 
the  person  to  whom  the  license  was  issued,  the  number  of  the 
license  and  the  fare  or  prices  for  carrying  passengers  or  bag- 
gage, or  both,  according  to  such  license  as  established  by  this 
ordinance,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  such  driver  when-  n"v<>r  si.au  deliver 

'  »/  •/  one  to  each  passcu- 

ever  he  shall  accept  or  contract  to  accept  any  person  or  per-  tore"efvc"Mm'*"^ 

sons  as  passengers  to  be  transported  for  hire  within  this  city, 

to  furnish  and  deliver  to  each  of  such  persons  so  accepted  or 

contracted  with,  one  of  said  cards   bearing  his  number  so 

printed,  and  wlienever  any  driver  or  person  licensed  to  carry  B»8«^*«cd^j^e^r«^^^^^ 

Iniggage  for  hire  shall  accept,  receive,  or  bargain  to  receive  p"^"'^*^- 

any  trunk,  valise,  or  other  article  of  baggage  to  be  by  him 

transported  within  said  city,  he  shall  furnish  and  deliver  to 

such  person  so  contracted  with,  a  card  as  aforesaid,  and  each 

driver  of  baggage  shall,  at  the  time  of  delivering  such  card, 

write  plainly  and  legibly  thereon  the  article  or  articles  Avhich  ^Ji^  thMcon'*" 

lie  has  so  received,  and  every  driver  or  person  so  licensed  '"'*'*''*'"  '■<=''"'^'^<'- 

who  shall  neglect  to  so  deliver  such  card,  or  to  endorse  such 

article  or  articles  so  received  thereon,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  Penalty. 

fine  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  fifteen  dollars  to  the 

City  of  liai-tford  for  the  use  of  the  city  treasury  for  each  and 

every  offence. 

Sec.   6.     Every  driver  of  passengers   or  passengers   and  Sodatei^rsouf""'" 
l)aggage  so  licensed  shall  be  held  at  all  reasonable  times  to  carSe^at'aiitimea. 
accommodate  those  who  may  apply  to  him  for  carriage,  and 
no  vehicle  so  licensed  shall,  while  engaged  so  as  to  be  unable  JngigeVprohibited 

,  .  , .  from  standing  on 

to  receive  and  transport  passengers,  remain  standing  upon  any  puwic  stand,  or  at 
of  the  public  stands  established  by  this  ordinance,  or  at  any  ^'^"-^-"dcpot. 
railroad  or  steamboat  depot  in  this  city,  and  no   driver  so  driver  shaii  receive 

1  «/  '  passengers  applying 

licensed  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  receive  and  transport,  or  rtaudo?it"J'iiiroad 

^  01  steamboat  depot. 

neglect  or  refuse  to  contract  to  receive  and  transport  any 
person,  or  neglect  or  refuse,  to  go  to  any  point  or  place  within 
the  city,  and  there  receive  and  transport,  with  ordinary  bag- 
gage, any  person  from  such  point  or  place  to  any  other  point 


292  PUBLIC    CARRIAGES. 

or  place  within  the  city  when  so  standing  and  applied  to  as 
aforesaid. 

Public  stands  Sec.  7.     No  public  carriages  for  the  conveyance  of  passen- 

gers shall  stand  at  any  place  in  said  city  waiting  for  employ- 
ment except  west  of  the  west  gate  on  the  noi-th  side  of  the 
state  honse  yard,  and  north  of  the  gate  on  the  west  side  of 
the  state  house  yard,  the  north  side  of  the  south  park,  so 
called,  and  on  the  south  side  of  Main  street  near  the  corner 
of  Ann  street,  and  in  such  order  and  manner  as  the  chief  of 
police  may  prescribe. 

Express  and  No  truck,  wagou,  dray,  or  vehicle  which  shall  be  used  in 

baggage  wagons 

where  to  stand.      ^j^g  ^'^^j  f^-j.  ^j^g  conveyancc  of  baggage,  goods,  wares,  mer- 
chandise, produce,  wood,  or  any  thing  whatever  for  hire  or 
Where  goods  on      for  thc  salc  thercof  shall  stand  for  such  puiT)ose  in  any  place 

wagons  may  be  sold.  '  X        jr  ./    x 

on  Main  and  State  streets,  around  and  near  said  state  house 
yard,  except  on  the  south  side  thereof,  and  in  such  order  and 
manner  as  the  chief  of  police  shall  direct  and  prescribe. 

No  boisterous  or  Sec.  8.     ]N"o  drlvcr  so  licensed,  while  at  a  public  stand  or 

indecorous  ■"- 

induiged'in'on  "^ ''^  at  auy  rallroad  station  or  steamboat   wharf  waiting  to  bo 

public  stands  or  at  ,  .     .    . 

stcamboaTstations.  employed  or  solicitiug  passengers,  or  while  any  public  car- 
riage is  in  his  charge  at  any  public  place,  shall  use  any  pro- 
fane, abusive,  boisterous,  or  indecorous  language,  or  utter 
loud  cries  or  calls,  or  scuffle,  or  crowd  about,  or  interfere  with 
any  other  driver  or  porter  with  whom  any  passenger  may  be 
negotiating  for  the  transportation  of  himself  or  baggage,  nor 

Violation  of  rules  of  violate  auv  of  the  rules  and  regulations  made  by  any  of  the 

railroad  and  '^  °  J  J 

niefSibite'dr'    raili'oad    or    steamboat    companies    occupying    stations    or 
Kaggage,  how  taken  whai'vcs  lu  this  clty,  aud  all  baffffaa^e  delivered  or  taken  away. 

and  delivered  at  ''  '  '-'^    *^  *' 

sutions.  therefrom  shall  be  delivered  and  taken  in  such  manner  as 

shall  be  designated  by  such  steamboat  or  railroad  company. 
Rates  of  fare  for  Sec.  9.     Withiu  thc  followlug  Hmits,  viz:     beffinniuij:  ati 

passengers  and  ^  o  ^  o  o  , 

baggage.  ConncctiCut  river  and   running   thence  westerly  on  a  line 

with  the  north  line  of  Pavilion  street  to  the  west  line  of 
Garden  street,  thence  southerly  down  Garden  street,  to  them 
north  line  of  Collins  street,  thence  westerly  along  Collins 
street  to  the  west  line  of  Sigourney  street,  thence  southerly 
down  Sigourney  street  to  Summit  street,  thence  through 
Summit  street  to  the  south  line  of  Jefferson  street,  thence 


I 


PUBLIC    CARRIAGES.  293 

easterly  through  Jefferson  and  Wyllys  streets  to  Connecticut 
river,  and  including  both  sides  of  all  said  streets,  the  prices 
or  rates  of  fare  to  be  taken  by  and  paid  to  persons  licensed 
to  carry  passengers  and  baggage  shall  be  as  follows,  viz : 

For  conveying  one  person  to  or  from  any  place  within  said 
limits  to  or  from  any  other  place  in  said  limits,  twenty-five 
cents,  and  for  each  trunk  conveyed  with  one  passenger  only, 
within  said  limits,  fifteen  cents. 

For  conveying  one  person,  with  ordinary  baggage,  to  or 
from  any  point  or  place  within  the  aforesaid  limits  to  or  from 
any  point  or  place  beyond  said  limits,  and  within  the  linuts 
of  the  city,  fifty  cents. 

For  conveying  two  persons,  with  ordinary  baggage,  both 
going  from  one  place  to  one  other  place  within  the  limits  of 
the  city,  fifty  cents;  three  persons,  seventy-five  cents,  and 
four  persons,  one  dollar. 

Children  under  four  years  of  age,  when  carried  in  company 
with  an  adult  person,  freej  and  between  the  ages  of  four  and 
twelve  years,  half  price. 

Between  the  hours  of  twelve  o'clock  at  night  and  six 
o'clock  in  the  morning,  twice  the  above  rates  may  be 
charged. 

For  the  use  of  a  public  carriage  by  the  hour,  one  dollar 
and  fifty  cents  may  be  charged  for  the  first  hour,  one  dollar 
for  each  succeeding  hour,  and  at  the  same  rate  for  fractions 
of  an  hour. 

For  weddings  and  parties,  three  dollars.  For  funerals,  two 
dollars  and  fifty  cents. 

Sec.  10.     The  charges  for  the  carrying  of  baggage  shall  be:  charges  for  carrying 

o    o  baggage. 

For  carrying  one  trunk  from  any  place  in  said  city  to  any 
railroad  or  steamboat  depot  or  any  stage  station  therein,  or 
from  any  such  railroad  or  steamboat  depot  or  stage  station  to 
any  other  place  therein,  twenty-five  cents ;  for  any  greater 
number  carried  at  the  same  time  from  any  one  place  to  the 
same  place,  fifteen  cents  for  each  extra  trunk  so  carried ;  for 
any  valise,  carpet-bag,  band-box,  hat-box,  bundle  or  other 
similar  parcel  when  carried  with  any  trunlc  from  any  one 
place  to  any  other  place,  five  cents;  when  carried  without 


294  PUBLIC    CARRIAGES. 

any  trunk  or  other  piece  of  baggage,  or  to  a  different  place, 
fifteen  cents ;  for  every  extra  similar  j^ackage  when  carried 
to  the  same  place,  five  cents. 
Form  of  cord  for         Sec.  11.     Said  cards  specified  in  section  five  of  this  ordi- 

passengers.  ^ 

nance  for  passengers  and  baggage  shall  be  in  the  form  fol- 
lowing : 

PASSENGER  &  BAGGAGE  LICENSE,  No.        ,  C.  D.,  LICENSEE. 

LEGAL  PASSENGER  FARE. 

1  passenger  to  or  from  any  place  within  the  following  limits, 
viz :  beginning  at  Connecticut  river  and  running  thence 
westerly  on  a  line  with  the  north  line  of  Pavilion  street 
to  the  west  line  of  Garden  street,  thence  southerly  down 
Garden  street  to  the  north  line  of  Collins  street,  thence 
westerly  along  Collins  street  to  the  west  line  of  Sigourney 
street,  thence  southerly  down  Sigourney  street  to  Summit 
street,  thence  through  Summit  street  to  the  south  line  of 
Jefferson  street,  thence  easterly  through  Jefferson  and 
Wyllys  streets  to  Connecticut  river,  and  including  both 
sides  of  all  said  streets,  to  or  from  any  other  place  within 
said  limits, $  .25 

Each  trunk  carried  with  one  passenger  only  within  said  limits,       .15 

1  passenger  with  ordinary  baggage  to  or  from  any  place  within 

said  limits  to  or  from  any  place  beyond  said  limits,    .        .       .5fl| 

2  persons  with  ordinary  baggage  both  going  from  one  place  to 

one  other  place  within  the  limits  of  the  city,      ...       .50 

3  persons  ditto, 75 

4  persons  ditto, 

Children  under  four  years  of  age,  in  company  with  an  adult, 
free;  and  between  the  ages  of  four  and  twelve  years,  half 
price. 

Fare  between  12  o'clock  at  night  and  6  o'clock  in  the  morn- 
ing, twice  the  above  rates. 

Public  carriage,  first  hour, 

"  "         each  succeeding  hour,  or  fractions  thereof, 

Weddings  and  parties, 3.00 

Funerals, 2 

Form  of  card  for         Seo.  12.     Thc  fomi  for  cards  for  baggage  as  specified 
section  five  of  this  ordinance  shall  be: 


PUBLIC    CARRIAGES.  295 

BAGGAGE  LICENSE  No.        ,  C.  D.,  LICENSEE. 

LEGAL  RATES  FOR  BAGGAGE. 

1  trunk  from  any  railroad  or  steamboat  depot  or  stage  station 

to  any  place  in  city,         .        .        .        .        .        .        .        .25  cts. 

Each  extra  trunk  from  same  place  to  same  place,      .        .        .15  cts.  ^ 

Each  valise  or  similar  package  carried  with  trunk  or  other 

piece  of  baggage  from  any  one  place  to  one  other  place,    .  5  cts. 

Carried  without  trunk  or  other  piece  of  baggage,  or  to  a  dif- 
ferent place, 15  cts. 


of  rules 
railroad  or 
steamboat  compa- 
unishoii. 


Sec.  13.  Every  person  so  licensed  who  shall  violate  any  of  vioif^on 
the  rules  or  regulations  made  and  published  by  any  of  the  nies"how 
railroad  or  steamboat  companies  in  this  city,  or  neglect  or 
refuse  to  receive  and  transport,  or  refuse  to  contract  to  receive  ^^J^'^^^^^^  \';*°/''''"*^ 
and  transport  any  person  applying  to  be  carried  while  his  i'""'"'''''*- 
vehicle  shall  be  standing  on  any  public  stand  or  at  any  rail- 
road or  steamboat  depot  in  this  city,  or  neglect  to  transport 
any  person  contracted  b}'  him  to  be  transported,  or  shall 
suffer  his  vehicle  to  remain  standing  on  any  public  stand  or  Penauy  tor  suffering 

'-'  *J     i-  vehicle  to  remain 

at  any  railroad  or  steamboat  depot  while  engaged  so  as  to  be  sratio^ns'^wh.-n 

n  .  -,  engaged. 

unable  to  take  or  receive  persons  for  carriage,  or  -neglect  to 
wear  a  badge  as  aforesaid  upon  his  cap  or  hat  while  soliciting 
passengers  or  baggage,  or  neglect  to  keep  a  number  cor- 
responding to  his  license  on  the  carriage  which  he  drives,  or 
shall  charge  or  receive  any  greater  rates  for  the  carrying  of  variou.s  penalties, 
baggage  than  established  herein,  or  shall  use,  or  deliver  to 
any  person  received  or  contracted  to  be  received  for  carriage, 
or  for  baggage,  any  different  form  of  card  than  herein  pro- 
vided, shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more 
than  fifteen  dollars  for  each  offence,  and  in  addition  to  the  pen- 
alties herein  prescribed  for  each  and  every  violation  of  any 
provision  of  this  chapter,  the  license  issued  to  the  offender  License  may  be 

revoked  in  .addition. 

may  be  revoked,  and  any  conviction  had  for  any  violation  of 

the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall  be  deemed  a  sufficient  what  a  ground  for 

-•-  peremptory  revoca- 

cause  for  the  revocation  of  such  license.  *"""'  "*'*^"'*- 

Sec.  14.     Every  person   who  shall,   contrary  to  the  pro- penalty  tor  driving 

•^       ■•■  ^  "'  ^  or  soliciting 

visions  of  this  ordinance,  solicit  passengers  or  baggage  to  be  EaggagfwitLut 

-,    n        -,   .  .1.  .1.  .  •  license. 

transported  for  hire  withm  said  city,  or  engage  m  carrying  or 
transporting  passengers  or  baggage  for  hire  therein,  without 


.296 


MISDEMEANORS. 


Regulating  the 
transportation  of 
(lead  bodies  in 
hacks. 


Chief  of  police 
shall  report  all 
violations  to  city 
attorney. 


I 


having  first  obtained  a  license  therefor  as  prescribed  in  this 
ordinance,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  City  of  Hartford  not 
less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  each 
offence;  and  every  day's  continuance  to  so  solicit  passengers 
or  baggage,  or  to  drive  any  vehicle  carrj^ing  passengers  or 
baggage  for  hire  therein  after  notice  to  desist  therefrom  by 
any  member  of  the  police  force  of  the  city,  shall  be  deemed  a 
separate  and  single  offence. 

Sec.  15.  N'o  hack  or  public  carriage,  owned  or  kept  for 
hire,  shall  be  used  for  transporting  the  bod}^  of  any  person 
who  shall  have  died  of  disease.  The  owner  or  keeper  of  any 
such  hack  or  carriage,  who  shall  suffer  the  same  to  be  used 
for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  shall  be  fined  five  dollars  for  each 
offence. 

Sec.  16.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  policeman  to  report 
all  violations  of  this  ordinance  to  the  chief  of  police,  and  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  chief  to  inquire  into  any  and  all  vio- 
lations of  this  chapter  that  shall  come  to  his  knowledge,  and 
report  the  same  to  the  city  attorney  for  prosecution. 


I 


CHAPTER  XIX. 


MISDEMEANORS. 


Conimitting  or 
aiding  nuisances. 


Committing  or  aiding  acts  of  nuisance. 
Violations  of  ordinances  de  snow  and 


Violations  of  ordinances  de  running  at 

large  of  cattle,  etc. 
Violations  of  hack  ordinance. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  o 
Hartford  : 

Section  1.  Any  person  who  shall  commit  or  aid,  advise, 
abet  or  encourage  the  committing  of  any  of  the  acts  of 
nuisances  enumerated  in  the  ordinances  of  the  city,  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  may  be  prosecuted 
therefor  in  the  city  Police  Court,  and  if  such  act  be  a  nuisance 


J 


MISDEMEANORS.  297 

of  the  first  class  may  be  fined  not  exceeding  twenty-five  dol-  penalty, 
lars,  if  it  be  of  the  second  class  not  exceeding  fifteen  dollars, 
if  it  be  of  the  third  class  not  exceeding  five  dollars,  if  it  be  of 
the  fourth  class  one  dollar. 

Sec.  2.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  or  neglect  to  comply  IndSratr^^I^^ 
with  the  ordinances  of  the  City  of  Hartford,  requiring  the 
sidewalks  to  be  made  safe  and  convenient  by  removing  snow, 
ice  and  sleet,  or  by  covering  the  ice  with  sand  or  other  suit- 
able substance,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and 
may  be  prosecuted  therefor  in  the  city  Police  Court,  and  may 
be  fined  not  less  than  two  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars  for  penalty, 
each  offence. 

Sec.  3.     Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  ordinance  of  the  Snc*' prevenTing 
City  of  Hartford  made  to  prevent  the  running  at  large  of  afiargl.'""  """""'"^ 
cattle,  sheep,  swine  and  goats,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor,  and  may  be  prosecuted  therefor  in  the  city 
Police   Court   and  fined  not  less  than  two  nor  more  than  Penalty. 
twenty  dollars. 

Sec.  4.     Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  ordinance  of  the  JrSnc"**^ ^'^^ 
City  of  Hartford  regulating  public  hacks  or  carriages,  the 
charges  of  hackmen  and  public  drivers,  cartmen  and  truck- 
men, shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  may  be 
prosecuted  in  the  city  Police  Court  and  fined  not  less  than  Penalty. 
jwo  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars. 


298 


TAXES. 


CHAPTEE  XX. 


TAXES. 


Town  assessors  shall  be  ex-officio  assessors 
of  the  city. 

Tax,  how  laid  in  case  of  failure  to 
complete  list. 

Council  may  appoint  rate-maker  an- 
nually. 


Collection  of  taxes,  how  made. 
Annual  tax  to  be  laid,  when. 
Special  tax  may  be  laid,  when. 


Assessors  of  town 
ez-offrct'o  assessors 
of  city. 


Assessment  list  of 
city,  when  and  liow 
made. 


Compensation  of 
assessors. 


Tax,  how  laid 
in  case  of  neglect  ( 
town  assessors  to 
make  list. 


Council  may 
appoint  a  rate 
maker. 


Compensation. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford  : 

Section  1.  The  assessors  of  the  town  of  Hartford  for  the 
time  being  shall  be  ex-officio  the  assessors  of  the  City  of  Hart- 
ford, and  may  prepare,  annually,  within  such  time  as  shall  be 
necessary  for  the  use  of  said  city,  a  city  assessment  list  of  the 
polls  and  ratable  estate  within  the  limits  of  the  city,  or  may 
in  some  suitable  manner  distinguish  or  set  apart  such  polls 
and  ratable  estate  upon  the  town  assessment  lists  by  them 
prepared,  for  which  service  they  shall  receive  such  reasonable 
compensation  as  the  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  allow; 
and  the  list  of  city  assessments  thus  prepared  or  distinguished* 
or  in  case  of  the  neglect  of  the  town  assessors  to  perform  thfl 
above  described  duty,  the  assessment  list  last  completed,  or 
next  to  be  completed,  by  the  assessors  and  board  of  relief  of 
the  town  of  Hartford,  shall  be  the  list  according  to  whic 
the  taxes  of  the  City  of  Hartford  shall  be  laid  after  the  firs 
day  of  October,  A.  D.  1870. 

Sec.  2.  The  Court  of  Commen  Council  may,  at  any  regula: 
meeting,  held  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  May  in  each  year, 
appoint,  by  concurrent  vote,  a  city  rate  maker,^  who  shall 
hold  his  ofiice  for  the  term  of  one  year,  and  who  shall  make 
out  and  certify  a  rate  bill,  setting  forth  the  proportion  which 
each  taxable  person  shall  pay  according  to  law,  for  whic 
service  he  shall  receive  such  reasonable  compensation  as  tli 
Court  of  Common  Council  shall  allow;  and  the  collector  o: 
the  city,  in  collecting  any  tax  laid  by  the  Court  of  Commo 


In  ease  of  neglect  to  appoint  rate-maker,  see  sec.  5,  p.  168. 


» 


TAXES.         .  299 

Council,  shall  have  the  powers  and  conform  to  the  regulations  '^^^^^''j^i^^  «'ty 

conferred  upon  and  prescribed  for  the  collection  of  town  taxes 

by  the  public  statutes  of  the  state,  after  having  received  from 

the  mayor  a  warrant^  for  the  collection  of  any  such  tax,  S4rrant.''"^ 

which  warrant  the  mayor  is  empowered  to  issue  upon  appli-  ^^^ . 

cation  of  the  collector.     And  the  collector  shall  be  account- 
able to  the  mayor  in  the  same  manner  as  collectors  of  town  abK mayor."''*' 
taxes,  are  to  the  selectmen ;  and  the  mayor  may  also  issue  his 
warrant  to  and  thereby  require  and  empower  the  city  mar-  JJ'^^^;''^"^,,'^'''^ 
shal  to  collect  from  any  negligent  collector  the  sums  due  from  p""'^""**'*^  '*"''• 
such  collector  to  the  city  treasury ;  which  warrant  may  be 
against  the  lands,  chattels,  and  body  of  such  collector;  and 
said  warrant  shall  be  proceeded  with  like  executions  in  civil 
actions. 

Sec.  3.     The  Court  of  Common   Council,  at   any  reo;ular  coimcu  to  lay 

'  «/  tJ  annual  taxes  at 

meeting  thereof,  held  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  May  in  beVore  M!iy''fi'rst.*'"^ 
each  year,  may  lay  a  tax'^  upon  the  polls  and  ratable  estate 
within  the  city,  as  the  annual  tax  for  the  current  year,  for  the 
purpose  of  defraying  any  lawful  expense,  or  paying  the  prin- 
cipal or  interest  upon  any  lawful  debt,  or  discharging  any 
lawful  liability  of  the  City  of  Hartford;  and  it  shall  be  its 
duty  to  lay  such  taxes  annually,  at  least,  upon  the  proper  list,  i>uty  ot  councu  to 

•^  'y  •/  ^  'J-  XX  ^  Jay  annual  tax. 

provided  that  taxes  authorized  by  law  for  any  specific  pur- 
pose, and  other  than  the  ordinary  annual  tax  of  the  city,  may 
be  laid  at  any  regular  meeting  of  the  Court  of  Common 
ouncil. 


1  For  form  of  warrant,  see  p.  172. 

'-  In  case  of  failure  to  lay  an  annual  tax,  see  sec.  5,  p.  X68. 


300  REGISTRATION    OF   BIRTHS   AND    DEATHS. 


GHAPTEE   XXI. 


REGISTRATION  OF  BIRTHS  AND  DEATHS. 


Sale  of  coffins  prohibited  unless  certifi- 
cate of  death  is  furnished. 

Form  of  certificate. 

Coffin  dealers  shall  make  return  to  regis- 
trars weekly. 

Duties  of  registrars. 


Penalty  for  neglect. 

Compensation  of   registrars,   and   how 

paid. 
Registrars  shall  make  return  of  births  to 

city  clerk. 


purchaser. 


Form  of  certificate. 


Be  it  ordaitied  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford  : 

saieof  coffins  SECTION  1.     No  pei'soii  shall  sell  and  deliver  or  suffer  to  be 

prohibited  unless  -i 

Te^Shed  br'"'  taken  from  the  place  of  sale  or  from  his  custody,  any  coffin, 
burial  case,  or  casket,  to  be  used  for  the  burial  of  any  one 
deceased  within  the  city  limits,  unless  he  shall  be  furnished 
by  the  person  applying  for  such  coffin  with  a  certificate  of 
death  signed  by  the  attending  physician  of  such  deceased 
person,  or  (in  case  there  was  no  attending  physician)  by  some 
other  physician  or  substantial  inha-bitant  residing  in  said  city, 
and  of  the  form  folloAving,  viz : 

I  certify,  from  the  best  information  I  can  obtain,  that  ■ 

died  at  No.  street,  in  the  ward 

of  the  City  of  Hartford,  on  the  day  of  ,  A.  T>. 

18     ,  aged  years,  months,  and  days.     Con- 

dition (single,  married,  or  widowed)  ;   born  in 

;  residence  at  time  of  death,  ;  disease  or  caus( 

of  death,  ;  occupation,  ;  color, 

Dated  at  Hartford  this  day  of  ,  A.  D.  18 

Registrar  shall  Aud  it  shall  bc  thc  dutv  of  the  re£>-istrar  of  births,  mar 

furnish  blank  forms.  "^  '^  ^ 

riages  and  deaths  of  the  town  of  Hartford  to  provide  blan 
forms  of  such  certificate  at  the  expense  of  the  city,  and  to  dis 
tribute  them,  free  of  cost,  to  persons  wishing  to  use  the  same. 
Physician  refusing       Sec.  2.     Auv  phvsician,  or  substantial  inhabitant,  risidinsal 

to  sign  certificate,  J     i      ./  '  '  ^«| 

how  punished.  -^^  ^^j^  ^j^^.^  cugnizaut  of  the  death  of  any  person  dying  within 
the  city  limits  who  shall  refuse,~on  application,  forthwith  to 


REGISTRATION    OF   BIRTHS   AND    DEATHS.  301 

till  and  sign  the  certificate  of  death,  prescribed  in  the  fore- 
going section,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  of  ten  dollars. 

Sec.  3.     Each  coffin  vender  shall  return  to  the  said  regis-  2e"rttul-n'"totowD 
trar,  on  Saturday  of  each  week,  all  certificates  of  death  that  wfek"'""  """"^ 

shall  have  come  into  his  hands  in  conformity  with  the  require-  

ments  of  section  one  from  and  including  the  Saturday  of  the 
preceding  week. 

Sec.  4.  Any  coffin  vender  who  violates  or  neglects  to  com-  P"iauy. 
ply  with  any  provision  of  this  ordinance,  shall  forfeit  and  pay 
a  fine  of  ten  dollars  for  each  ofi'ence,  and  every  person  who 
shall  sell,  or  furnish  for  use  any  coffin,  burial  case,  or  casket, 
shall  be  deemed  to  be  a  coffin  vender  within  the  meaning  of 
this  ordinance. 

Sec.  5.     Said  rei>*istrar  shall,  on  the  first  Wednesday  of  each  Duty  oi  registrar  ^t 

<^  '  •/  reports  and  returns. 

month,  prepare  and  file  with  the  city  clerk  a  report  of  the 
deaths  occurring  during  the  preceding  month,  which  report 
shall  exhibit,  in  a  tabular  form,  for  the  city,  and  for  its 
several  wards,  the  age,  sex,  color,  occupation,  civil  condition, 
and  nativity  of  the  deceased;  shall  embrace  in  distinct  classes 
those  under  one  year  of  age,  those  from  one  to  five,  those 
from  five  to  ten,  those  from  ten  to  twenty,  and  so  on  for  each 
decennial  period,  shall  show  the  rate  per  cent,  of  mortality  by 
wards,  as  well  as  for  the  whole  city,  and  contain  a  summary 
of  the  causes  of  death.  On  the  second  Wednesday  of  Janu- 
ary in  each  year,  said  registrar  shall  prepare  and  file  with  the 
city  clerk  a  report  of  the  deaths  which  have  taken  place  in 
the  city  and  its  several  wards  during  the  previous  year, 
showing  the  age,  sex,  color,  civil  condition,  occupation,  and 
nativity  of  the  deceased,  the  causes  of  death,  an^i  rate  per 
cent,  of  mortality,  classified  in  tabular  form  as  above  required. 
If  said  registrar  shall  neglect  to  file  with  the  city  clerk  such  Penalty  h.  case  of 

"  ~  "^  neglect  of  registrar 

monthly  report  for  three  days,  or  such  annual  report  for  one  ^°  ^'^  "^^^p*""'- 
week  after  the  time  required  to  file  the  same,  he  shall  for- 
feit and  pay  a  fine  of  ten  dollars  for  each  offence,  and  if  he 
shall  neglect  to  tile  such  monthly  report  for  more  than  three 
days,  or  such  annual  report  for  more  than  one  Aveek  after  the 
time  required  to  file  the  same,  he  shall  forfeit  and  pay,  in 
addition  to  the  fine  of  ten  dollars,  a  fine  of  three  dollars  for 


302  REGISTRATION    OF   BIRTHS    AND    DEATHS. 

oompensatiou  of     eRch  dav  of   such   continued  netylect.      Said  registrar  shall 

registrar,  and  how  ''  o  o 

•'*'**•  receive  from  the  city  treasury  the  sum  of  five  dollars  for  each 

such  monthly,  and  the  sum  of  ten  dollars  for  each  such 
annual  report,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  auditor  to 
draw  his  order  on  the  city  treasurer  for  such  amount,  when 
he  shall  receive  a  certificate  from  the  city  clerk  that  such 
report  has  been  filed. 

.Saud  file  report      Sec.  6.     Said  rcglstrar  shall,  on  the  second  Wednesday  of 

ot  births  with  city  .  i/^t.ii.ti 

"'erk.  January  m  each  year,  prepare  and  file  with  the  city  clerk  a 

report  of  the  births  which  have  taken  place  within  the  city, 
and  within  its  several  wards  during  the  preceding  year, 
which  report  shall  exhibit  in  tabular  form  the  rate  per  cent, 
of  births,  both  in  the  city  and  in  the  several  wards,  the  num- 
ber of  each  sex  born  during  the  year,  and  during  each  month 
of  the  year,  the  number  still-born,  the  color  of  all  in  each 
class,  and  the  nativity  of  the  parents.  Said  registrar  shall 
receive  for  such  report  the  sum  of  ten  dollars,  to  be  paid  in 
the  manner  provided  in  the  preceding  section. 


AN    ORDINANCE.  303 

[Revision  Adopted.] 

AN   ORDINANCE 

TO  CARRY  INTO  EFFECT  THE  REVISED  ORDINANCES. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford  : 

Section  1.  The  Eevised  Ordinances  reported  to  this  court, 
January  28,  1884,  by  the  committee  of  revision,  together 
with  this  ordinance,  shall  constitute  the  General  Ordinances 
of  the  City  of  Hartford,  and,  shall  be  and  become  operative 
on  the  first  day  of  April,  1884,  and  shall  then,  on  the  first 
day  of  April,  1884,  together  Avith  any  ordinances  that  may 
be  approved  between  said  28th  day  of  January  and  1st  day 
of  April  be  the  ordinances  of  the  city,  and  all  other  ordi- 
nances in  force  on  said  28th  day  of  January  shall  be  there- 
after repealed. 

Sec.  2.  The  said  repeal  shall  not  impair  or  affect  any 
rights,  privileges,  immunities,  or  ofiices  vested  in  the  City  of 
Hartford,  or  in  any  of  its  officers,  or  in  any  person  or  body 
corporate,  and  all  matters  civil  or  criminal  commenced  by 
virtue  of  the  ordinances  repealed  as  aforesaid,  and  pending 
unfinished,  may  be  prosecuted  to  final  effect  in  the  same  man- 
ner as  if  this  ordinance  had  not  been  passed,  and  no  ordinance 
which  has  been  heretofore  repealed  shall  be  revived  by  the 
repeal  mentioned  in  this  ordinance. 

Sec  3.  No  offence  committed,  and  no  penalty  or  forfeiture 
incurred  under  any  of  the  ordinances  hereby  repealed,  before 
the  time  when  said  repeal  shall  take  effect,  shall  be  affected 
by  said  repeal,  except  that  when  any  penalty,  punishment,  or 
forfeiture,  shall  have  been  mitigated  by  the  provisions  of  the 
revision,  such  provisions  shall  be  extended  to  any  judgment 
to  be  pronounced  under  said  repeal. 


304 


AN   ORDINANCE. 


■ 


Sec.  4.  The  rules  of  construction  set  out  in  sections  8  and 
9,  title  XXII.  of  the  General  Statutes  of  Connecticut,  are 
hereby  made  binding  upon  this  revision. 

By  concurrent  action  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council 
January  28,  1884,  the  foregoing  ordinance  was  adopted. 

Approved,  January  29,  1884. 

Attest, 

JOHN  E.  HIGGINS, 

City  Clerh 


APPENDIX 


APPENDIX 


Votes  and  Resolutions  in  force  Feb.  1,  1884. 


WRITS. 

Voted,  That  all  copies  of  writs  served  upon  the  city  clerk 
in  suits  wherein  the  city  is  garnishee,  shall  be  at  once  shown 
by  him  to  the  city  attorney,  if  the  same  are  lodged  when 
this  court  is  not  in  session,  and  the  city  attorney  is  author- 
ized  to  appear  for  the  city,  in  such  suits,  whenever  he  shall 
deem  it  necessary. 

Passed,  October  8,  1855. 

I  CROSSWALKS. 

Voted,  That  the  board  of  street  commissioners  be  and  are 
lereby  authorized  to  lay  crosswalks  other  than  those  at  the 
Qtersection   of  streets,  whenever  parties  interested  therein 
hall  furnish  material  for  the  same. 
Passed,  July  23,  1860. 

BILLS. 

Besolved,  That  all  bills  presented  to  the  Court  of  Common 
Council  for  its  approval  shall  be  so  far  itemized  as  to  state  in 
brief  what  each  is  for. 
»    Passed,  April  18,  1881. 

HORSE    RAILWAY   COMPANY. 

Resolved,  That  the  consent  of  this  Court  of  Common 
Council  is  hereby  given  to  the  Hartford  and  Wethersfield 
Horse  Railway  Company,  to  construct  a  single  or  double 
horse  railway  from  the  southern  limits  of  the  city  of  Hart- 
ford on  the  Wethersfield  avenue,  over  and  along  said  avenue 


308 


APPENDIX. 

and  over  and  along  Main  street,  in  said  city,  to  the  north 
line  of  the  city,  provided  that  the  location  of  said  railroad, 
and  the  mode  and  manner  of  its  construction,  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  the  ai)proval  of  the  highway  committee. 
Passed,  June  28,  1861. 

HORSE   RAILWAY    COMPANY. 

Voted,  That  the  Hartford  and  Wethersfield  Horse  Eail- 
way  Company  be,  and  they  are  hereby  authorized  and 
licensed  to  lay  down  a  single  track  of  railway,  with  the 
necessary  turnouts,  from  the  steainboat  dock  at  the  foot  of 
State  street,  through  State  and  As^dum  streets,  Asylum 
avenue,  Woodland  street,  Farmington  avenue,  to  its  inter- 
section with  Asylum  street;  also  through  Sigourney  street 
between  Asylum  and  Farmington  avenues ;  provided,  that 
said  railway  company  agree  to  extend  and  do  extend  and 
lay  their  track  as  far  west  on  Asylum  avenue  as  Woodland 
street,  on  or  before  July  1,  1863,  and  that  the  same  be  laid 
under  the  supervision  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  highway 
committee. 

Passed,  October  27,  1863. 


HARTFORD     AND     WETHERSFIELD     HORSE     RAILWAY     COMPANY 

RESOLUTION    OF   LOCATION. 

Whereas,  By  a  vote  of  this  court,  passed  August  10.  1863,  the 
license  previously  granted  to  Hartford  and  Wethersfield 
Horse  Railway  Company,  to  lay  a  single  track  with  neces- 
sary turnouts,  from  the  steamboat  dock  at  the  foot  of  State 
street,  through  State  and  Asylum  streets,  Asylum  avenue. 
Woodland  street,  Farmiugton  avenue,  to  its  intersection 
with  Asylum  street,  and  also  through  Sigourney  street, 
between  Asylum  and  Farmington  avenues,  was  declared 
forfeited  by  reason  of  the  non-fulfillment  by  said  company, 
of  the  condition  annexed  to  said  license: 

And  Whereas,  said  company,  without  admitting  a  legal  for- 
feiture of  the  prior  license,  or  waiving  any  vested  right 
they  may  have  under  the  same,  have  agreed  to  accept  cer- 


1 
I 


VOTES   AND   RESOLUTIONS  309 

tain  terms  and  conditions  in  consideration  that  this  court 

will  renew  and  confirm  said  license ; 

Hesolved,  That  the  permission  and  license  given  to  the 
Hartford  and  Wethersfield  Horse  Eailway  Company,  to  lay  a 

single  track,  with  the  necessary  turnouts,  from  the  steamboat . 

dock  at  the  foot  of  State  street  through  State  and  Asylum 
streets,  Asylum  avenue,  "Woodland  street,  Farmington  avenue 
from  Woodland  street  at  its  intersection  with  Asylum  street, 
and  also  through  Sigourney  street,  between  Asylum  and 
Farmington  avenues  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby  renewed  and 
confirmed. 

The  right  to  lay  down  this  additional  track  is  under  the 
express  proviso  and  condition  to  the  renewal  and  confirma- 
tion of  the  location,  that  the  whole  work  of  laying  down  the 
track  granted  by  this  resolution,  shall  be  done  under  the 
direction  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  highway  committee. 

This  renewal  and  confirmation  is  granted  under  the  further 
express  proviso  and  condition,  that  the  said  Hartford  and 
Wethersfield  Horse  Eailway  Company  agree  to  lay  and  ex- 
tend, and  do  lay  and  extend  their  track  from  Main  street 
through  State  street,  to  the  steamboat  dock  at  the  foot  of 
State  street,  and  in  the  construction  of  said  track,  pave  with 
stone  the  roadway  for  from  twelve  to  eighteen  inches,  from 
and  outside  of  each  rail,  during  the  present  fall. 

Also  under  the  further  express  proviso  and  condition  that 
the  said  Hartford  and  Wethersfield  Horse  Eailway  Company, 
agree  to  lay,  and  lay  a  stone  pavement  similar  to  the  one  to 
be  laid  in  State  street  for  from  twelve  to  eighteen  inches  from 
and  outside  of  each  rail  of  their  track  in  Asylum  street,  and 
Asylum  avenue,  from  Main  street  to  the  top  of  Asylum  Hill, 
commencing  to  lay  said  pavements  the  first  of  August  next, 
and  completing  the  same  as  soon  as  practicable  and  before 
the  first  of  December,  1864.  Provided,  that  during  the  first 
week  of  July  next,  the  mayor  and  the  two  senior  aldermen 
for  the  time  being,  or  a  majority  of  them  shall  notify  said 
company  that  in  their  opinion  said  pavement  has  proved  so 
fiir  superior  to  McAdam's  that  the  public  interests  require 
the  same  to  be  laid  as  aforesaid  in  Asylum  street  and  avenue. 


31(»  APPENDIX. 

Also,  under  the  further  express  proviso  and  condition  that 
whenever  the  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  order  any 
street  in  which  any  track  of  the  Hartford  and  Wethersfield 
Horse  Eailway  Company  is  or  shall  be  located,  to  be  paved 
or  repaved,  the  said  company  shall  at  their  own  expense,  and 
under  the  direction  and  to  the.  satisfaction  of  the  highway 
committee,  pave  that  portion  of  the  street  so  ordered  to  be 
paved  or  repaved,  lying  between  the  rails  of  their  track,  and 
also  that  portion  of  the  street  lying  outside  of  the  rails  and 
adjacent  thereto  and  extending  two  feet  from  and  outside  of 
each  rail. 

Also,  under  the  further  express  proviso  and  condition,  that 
the  said  Hartford  and  Wethersfield  Horse  Eailway  Company 
shall  not  hereafter  construct  or  begin  to  construct  any  turn- 
out within  the  limits  of  the  city,  without  first  obtaining 
from  the  highway  committee  permission  and  license  so  to  do. 

Also,  under  the  further  express  proviso  and  condition,  that 
whenever  there  shall  occur  a  fall  of  snow,  of  sufficient  depth 
to  allow  vehicles  to  j)ass  over  the  snow  on  runners,  no  snow 
plow  shall  be  allowed  to  pass  over  the  several  tracks  of  the 
Hartford  and  Wethersfield  Horse  Eailroad  Company,  within 
the  limits  of  the  city,  nor  shall  the  said  company  cause  or 
allow  snow  to  be  removed  from  their  several  tracks,  without 
consent  being  first  obtained  of  the  street  commissioner.  The 
consent  for  the  removal  of  the  snow,  for  the  opening  of  the 
tracks,  being  refused,  the  said  company,  in  such  cases,  is 
-  authorized  to  use  a  sufficient  number  of  sleighs  to  convey 
passengers  requiring  transit  over  their  roads,  day  by  day, 
until  the  cars  can  be  used  upon  the  tracks. 

Also,  that  said  company  shall  not  sprinkle  salt  or  any 
article  of  a  decomposing  nature  on  their  tracks  or  rails,  or 
cause  or  allow  the  same  to  be  done  by  any  of  their  agents, 
for  the  purpose  of  melting  the  snow ;  or  wash  or  cause  to 
be  washed,  by  any  of  their  agents,  the  said  tracks  and  rails 
with  brine  or  pickle,  for  a  like  purpose,  unless  a  permit  be 
granted  by  said  commissioner  allowing  the  same  to  be  done, 
and  said  ju-rmit  sluill  only  be  i;*rniito<]  when  tlie  use  of  said 


VOTES    AND   RESOLUTIONS.  311 

articles  shall  not  be  detriniental  to  vehicles  crossing  the 
tracks  and  rails. 

Also,  under  the  further  exj^ress  proviso  and  condition,  that 
the  said  Hartford  and  Wethersileld  Horse  Eailway  Company 

shall  keep  the  whole  of  their  track  and  the  surface  of  the  _   , 

street  within  their  track,  and  for  two  feet  adjoining  thereto, 
in  good  order  and  complete  rej)air,  and  that,  if  upon  written 
notice  from  the  street  commissioner,  designating  any  place 
or  places  where  said  track  is  not  in  good  order  and  complete 
repair,  and  requesting  the  said  company  to  put  the  same  in 
good  order  and  complete  repair,  the  said  company  shall  not 
comply  with  the  request  within  thirty  days  from  the  recep- 
tion thereof,  then  the  street  commissioner  shall  jDroceed  to 
put  the  designated  place  or  places  in  good  order  alid  com- 
plete repair  at  the  expense  of  said  company. 

Also,  under  the  further  express  proviso  and  condition,  that 
said  Hartford  and  Wethersfield  Horse  Eailway  Company 
shall  accept  this  resolution  of  location,  and  agree  to  its  sev- 
eral provisions  and  conditions  within  ten  days  from  the  date 
of  its  passage,  otherwise  it  shall  be  null  and  void. 

Approved,  September  15,  1863. 

COPY. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  directors  of  the  Hartford  and  Wethers- 
field  Horse  Railway  Company,  held  September  21st,  it  was 
Voted^  That  the  license  passed  September  14th,  1863,  by 
the  Court  of  Common  Council,  with  its  conditions  and  pro- 
visions, be  and  is  hereby  accepted  by  this  company. 

Attest,  E.  L.  Eldredge,  Secretary. 

Hartford,  September  21,  1863. 

To  Levi  Woodhouse,  Esq'r. 

Clerk  of  Court  of  Common   Conncil. 
Eeeeivod  September  22,  1863. 

Attest,  LEVI  WOODHOUSE,  City  Clerk, 


312  APPENDIX. 

ASYLUM  STREET  TURNOUT. 

Resolved,  That  the  turnout  on  Asylum  street,  west  of  Ford 
street,  be  allowed  to  remain.  Provided,  that  said  Hartford 
and  Wethersfield  Horse  Eailway  Company  shall,  as  soon 
as  practicable,  pav^  with  Belgium  or  other  similar  pavement, 
approved  by  the  highway  committee,  the  whole  space  be- 
tween the  rails  of  said  turnout  and  so  much  of  said  main 
track  as  is  parallel  to  the  same;  also,  a  space  two  feet  in 
width  outside  of  the  rails  of  said  turnout  and  main  track; 
also,  the  space  betAveen  said  turnout  and  main  track;  and 
further  ^provided,  that  at  no  time  shall  more  than  one  car  be 
allowed  to  stand  on  said  main  track  or  turnout  between  Ford 
street  and  the  track  of  the  Hartford  and  JSTew  Haven  Eail- 
road  Company,  unless  the  same  shall  be  unavoidable. 

Passed,  October  26,  1863. 

RETREAT   AVENUE   AND    PARK    STREET   LINES. 

Resolved,  That  permission  is  hereby  given  to  the  Hartford 
and  Wethersfield  Horse  Eailway  Company  to  lay  a  single 
track,  with  necessary  turnouts,  in  the  following  streets,  viz : 
Either  from  Main  street  present  track  of  petitioners  at  Wyllys 
street,  through  Wyllys  street,  westerly  across  Main  street 
and  Eetreat  avenue  to  Eetreat  avenue,  or  from  Main  street 
present  track  of  petitioners  near  Park  street,  in  Main  street 
on  the  west  side  of  South  Park  to  Eetreat  avenue,  in  Eetreat 
avenue  from  Maple  avenue  to  Washington  street,  across 
Washington  street  west  from  Eetreat  avenue  to  Yernon 
street,  in  Yernon  street,  in  Broad  street,  in  Park  street, 
in  Lafayette  street,  in  Washington  street  from  Lafayette 
street  to  Capital  avenue,  in  Capital  avenue,  in  Trinity  street, 
in  Ford  street,  in  Pearl  street,  across  Main  street,  in  Central 
Eow  to  present  track  on  State  street,  the  same  to  be  at  such 
grades  and  in  such  parts  of  said  several  streets  as  shall  be 
approved  by  the  street  commissioners,  and  under  the  super- 
vision of  the  board ;  Provided,  That  said  tracks  be  laid,  and 
said  railway  line  be  constructed  and  put  in  running  order 
from  Wyllys  street  to  Broad  street,  and  from  State  street 
through  Central  Eow,  Pearl,  Ford,  Trinity  and  Lafayette 


VOTES    AND   RESOLUTIONS.  313 

streets  to  Park  street,  within  two  years  from  July  1,  1881 ; 
and  further  provided,  That  the  permission  granted  to  lay  the 
tracks  through  the  streets  named  is,  with  the  agreement  on 
the  part  of  the  Hartford  and  Wethersfield  Horse  Eailway 
Company,  that  the  provisions  of  the  license  granted  Septem-  — 

ber  14,  1863,  and  accepted  September  21,  1863,  are  hereby 
made  a  part  of,  and  a  condition  to,  the  grants  herein  made; 
and  also,  that  said  Hartford  and  Wethersfield  Horse  Eailway 
Company  agree,  that  in  case  the  Court  of  Common  Council 
shall  hereafter  direct  and  order  a  change  of  grade  in  any  of 
the  streets  or  highways  in  which  the  tracks  of  said  company 
are  located,  to  re-lay  said  tracks,  at  their  own  expense,  so  as 
to  conform  to  the  grade  ordered,  under  the  direction  and  to 
the  satisfaction  of  the  board  of  street  commissioners. 
Passed,  June  18,  1881. 

ALBANY   AVENUE   LINE. 

Besolved,  That  permission  is  hereby  granted  to  the  Hart- 
ford and  Wethersfield  Horse  Eailway  Company  to  lay  a  single 
track  in  Main  street  and  Albany  avenue,  beginning  at  a  point 
in  Main  street  within  the  existing  track,  near  the  intersection 
of  the  line  of  Albany  avenue  produced  to  said  track,  thence 
to  Albany  avenue,  and  in  Albany  avenue  from  its  eastern 
terminus  as  far  as  the  line  of  intersection  of  the  Blue  Hills 
road,  so  called;  the  said  track  to  be  laid  at  such  grades,  and 
in  such  parts  (laterally)  of  said  streets,  and  with  such  neces- 
sary turnouts  as  shall  be  approved  by  the  board  of  street 
commissioners,  all  of  which  work  shall  be  under  the  super- 
vision of  said  board ;  Provided,  That  said  track  shall  be  laid 
and  said  railway  be  constructed  and  in  running  order  as  far 
as  Vine  street  on  or  before  July  1,  1885 ;  Provided  also,  That 
in  case  a  change  of  grade  shall  hereafter  be  made  in  either 
the  street  or  avenue  above  named,  the  said  railway  company 
agree  that  they  will  relay  their  track  at  their  own  expense 
so  as  to  conform  to  the  grade  ordered,  under  and  according 
to  the  direction  and  supervision  of  the  board  of  street  com- 
missioners ;  and  provided  further,  That  if  upon  written  notice 
from  the  board  of  street  commissioners  designating  any  place 


314  APPENDIX. 

or  places  where  the  said  track  or  the  street  surface,  or  a 
crosswalk,  which  th.e  said  railway  company  are  bound  by  law 
to  keep  in  repair,  is  not  in  good  order  and  complete  repair, 
and  requesting  the  said  company  to  put  the  same  in  good 
order  and  complete  repair,  the  said  company  shall  not  comply 
with  the  request  within  thirty  days  from  the  reception 
thereof,  then  the  board  of  street  commissioners  shall  proceed 
to  put  the  designated  place  or  places  in  good  order  and  com- 
plete repair  at  the  expense  of  said  company. 
Passed,  May  28,  1883. 

HORSE   RAILWAY   STONE. 

Hesolved,  That  the  street  commissioner  be  authorized  and 
requested  to  comply,  as  far  as  he  can  without  detriment  to 
public  interest,  with  applications  from  the  Hartford  and 
Wethersfield  Horse  Eailway  Company,  for  the  purchase  of 
stone  for  the  purpose  of  keeping  the  tracks  of  said  company 
within  the  city  limits  in  repair. 

Passed,  September  14,  1863. 


RULES,  REGULATIONS  AND  WATER  RATES 

MADE  BY  THE 

Board   of  ^  Water  Commissioners 

OF  THE 

CITY    OF   HARTFORD, 

Iix    force    Feljrviary    1,    1884. 


EuLE  1.     The  regular  water  rents  shall  be  due  and  payable  water  reuts,  when 

"  ^  due  aud  payable. 

at  the  office  of  the  board  of  water  commissioners  semi-annu- 
ally, on  the  first  day  of  May  and  November  in  each  year ;  and 
to  all  rents  remaining  unpaid  ten  days  after  due,  there  will 
be  added  five  per  cent,  for  collection,  and  a  further  sum  of 
one  per  cent,  will  be  added  on  the  first  day  of  each  month  4^^|."°°'  ^^^"^ 
thereafter  until  paid. 

EuLE  2.     1^0  abatement  of  water  rent  will  be  allowed  by  no  abatement  of 

«/    rent  unless  notice  is 

reason  of  disuse,  or  diminished  use,  or  vacant  premises,  unless  ^^^^''' 
notice  thereof  shall   have   been   given  at  the  office   of  the 
board  at  least  thirty  days  before  such  rent  shall  be  due  and 
payable. 

EuLE  3.  All  applications  for  service-pipe,  or  for  the  use  of  ^e^Se^'pS/how 
water,  must  be  made  in  writing  at  the  office  by  the  OAvner  of  "'''  ^* 
the  premises  in  the  form  prescribed,  and  must  state  fully  and 
fairly  all  and  several  of  the  various  uses  to  which  the  water 
is  to  be  applied.  And  whenever  thereafter  any  other  or 
further  use  of  the  water  or  additional  service-pipe,  or 
plumbing,  or  fixtures  is  required,  a.  further  application  must 
be  made  as  aforesaid.  Provided,  that  the  commissioners  at 
their  discretion  may  supply  service  pipes  or  water  upon  the 


316 


RULES,   REGULATIONS   AND  WATER  RATES. 


Penalty  for  using 
■water  without 
making  application. 


Service  pipe,  when 
not  allowed. 


Same,  how  laid. 


Duty  of  persons 
using  water. 


Continuous  flow 
forbidden. 


"Water  foi  building 
purpoBss. 


application  of  parties  other  than  the  owner  of  the  premises 
when  the  expenses  of  water  rents  are  paid  in  advance  or 
secured  to  the  satisfaction  of  said  commissioners.  And 
every  person  who  shall  use  the  water  without  such  applica- 
tion, and  statement  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  liable  to  pay 
therefor  at  such  extra  rates  as  the  commissioners  shall  fix 
and  determine  at  their  discretion,  not  exceeding  three-fold 
the  regular  rates. 

EuLE  4.  ^o  service-pipe  will  be  allowed  for  premises 
where  the  annual  water  rent  therefrom  shall  be  less  than 
five  dollars. 

EuLE  5.  Service-pipes  will  be  laid  as  soon  as  practicable, 
upon  application;  and  the  commissioners  reserve  the  right  in 
all  cases  to  lay  the  service-pipe  from  the  street  main  to  the 
street  line,  but  will  charge  the  applicant  for  that  portion 
only  laid  between  the  sidewalk  line  and  the  street  line. 

EuLE  6.  All  persons  supplied  with  the  water  will  be  re- 
quired to  keep  the  service-pipes,  stop-cocks,  and  all  fixtures 
connected  therewith  upon  their  premises,  in  good  repair,  and 
protected  from  frost,  and  so  arranged  and  provided  with 
stop  and  waste-cocks  as  to  allow  the  pipes  to  be  emptied  and 
kept  free  of  water  during  all  periods  of  dangerous  exposure 
to  the  action  of  frost,  whether  by  night  or  by  day;  and  must 
keep  the  same  shut  off  and  free  from  water  whenever  the 
safety  of  such  pipes  requires  it. 

EuLE  7.  ]^o  continuous  floAv  to  guard  against  frost  or  for 
any  other  purposes,  will  be  allowed,  except  in  special  cases, 
by  special  agreement,  as  to  conditions  and  rates. 

EuLE  8.  Water  used  for  building  purposes  will  in  all 
cases  be  chargeable  to  the  respective  owners  of  the  buildings. 
Every  builder  is  required  to  render  at  th-e  office  of  the  com- 
missioners, on  or  before  the  10th  day  of  January  in  each 
year,  a  full  and  true  account  of  all  the  water  used  by  him  for 
building  j^urposes  during  the  preceding  year,  with  the  time, 
place  and  quantity  for  each  separate  building ;  and  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  such  builder  to  pay  for  the  same ;  and  if  so  ren- 
dered and  paid  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  commissioners,  such 


RULES,  REGULATIONS  AND  WATER  RATES.  317 

payment  shall  be  a  full  discharge  to  the  owner  of  such 
building. 

EuLE  9.     The  regular  water  rents  for  the  use  of  private  Rates  for  certain 

o  -I-  uses,  how  deter- 

fountains,  or  jets  in  hotels,  eating-houses,  conservatories,  or  ™"'^^" 

other  buildings,  will  be  based  upon  such   use  for  a  period  — ^^ . 

equivalent  to  four  hours  each  day,  during  four  months  in 
each  year,  and  no  greater  use  will  be  allowed  except  in  cases, 
and  at  rates  specially  agreed  upon  with  the  commissioners. 
And  the  commissioners  reserve  in  all  cases  the  right  to  sus- 
pend or  discontinue  the  use  of  water  for  all  such  fountains 
and  jets,  whenever  the  public  interest  requires  it. 

BuLE  10.     The  regular  water  rents  for  street,  sidewalk  or  Rates  for  sprinkung, 

'^  '  how  determined. 

garden  sprinkling,  will  be  based  upon  such  use,  only  for  dust 
laying  or  sprinkling  purposes,  fairly  applied ;  and  any  exces- 
sive or  unreasonable  use  thereof  for  these  or  other  purposes, 
is  prohibited. 

EuLE  11.     Whenever  two  or  more  several  parties  or  fami-  ?"»»«;» ^^ppiy"**^ 

■L  be  withheld. 

lies  are  supplied  with  water  from  the  same  service-pipe,  the 
failure  of  any  one  of  said  parties  to  pay  the  water  rent  when 
due,  or  to  comply  with  the  published  rules  or  regulations  of 
the  commissioners,  shall  authorize  the  commissioners  to 
withhold  all  supply  from  such  a  service-pipe,  without  liability 
in  damages  to  either  of  the  other  parties. 

EuLE  12.     All  supplies  of  water  will  be  furnished,  subject  supply  subject  to 

■'-■'-  •>  ni  j^igg  j,f  tijg  board, 

to  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  board,  and  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  every  person  supplied  to  prevent  all  unnecessary 
waste,  and  to  answer  at  all  reasonable  times  all  proper  inqui- 
ries made  by  the  commissioners  or  their  agents,  relative  to 
the  quantity,  purposes  and  manner  in  which  the  water  is 
used  upon  their  premises.  And  the  commissioners  and  their 
agents  shall  have  right,  at  all  reasonable  times,  to  enter  into 
any  dwelling-house  or  other  premises  where  the  water  is  sup- 
plied, to  make  such  personal  examinations  of  all  fixtures,  and 
inquiries  as  to  the  use  of  said  water,  as  they  shall  deem 
necessary  to  a  faithful  supervision  of  the  same. 

EuLE   13.     The   commissioners   reserve    the   riffht   at   all  Reserved  rights  of 

^  commissioners, 

times  to  shut  off  the  water  for  necessary  repairs,  extensions, 
or  other  necessary  pui^poses  of  the  work,  for  non-payment  of 


318  RULES,  REGULATIONS  AND  WATER  RATES. 

water  rents,  or  for  neglect  or  refusal  to  comply  with  the 
rules  and  regulations  of  the  board.  They  also  reserve  the 
right,  in  all  cases,  to  test  the  quantity  of  water  actually  sup- 
plied to  any  person  or  premises,  by  the  application  of  a 
meter;  and  to  revise  and  adjust  all  contracts  made  for  the 
use  of  water,  upon  the  basis  of  such  actual  quantity  as  the 
application  of  such  test  shall  disclose. 
Arrears  of  rent  and      RuLE  14.     Wheuevcr  thc  watcr  Is  shut  oif  from  any  ser- 

expense  of  shutting  *' 

Se*'wa\°erisaSn  vlce-plpc  for  nou-paymcnt  of  rent,  or  non-compliance  with 
the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  board,  the  same  will  not  be 
allowed  to  flow  until  the  delinquent  shall  have  paid  all 
arrears  of  rent  (if  any)  and  the  expense  of  shutting  off  and 
letting  on  the  water  as  aforesaid. 

Water  not  to  be  RuLE  15.     If  anv  owucr,  or  lessee  under  him,  shall  suffer 

used  except  on  the  , 

premises.  ^^j  Water  to  be  taken  from  the  premises,  for  the  use  of  any 

person  or  family,  not  belonging  to  such  premises,  without  the 
special  consent  of  the  commissioners,  every  such  owner  shall 
be  liable  to  pay  such  sum  as  the  commissioners  may  assess 
therefor,  at  their  discretion,  not  exceeding  three-fold  the  reg- 
ular rates. 

Private  hydrants        EuLE    16.      Thc    coustruction    aud    location    of    private 

subject  to  approval.  ■"• 

hydrants  and  fountains  will  be  subject  to  thc  approval  of  the 
commissioners,  and  Avhenever  the  waste  therefrom  becomes  a 
nuisance  to  adjacent  property,  the  supply  will   be  cut  off, 
until  the  evil  is  satisfactorily  corrected. 
Injuries  to  pipes,         RuLE    17.     All   injurics  to    service-pipes   or   street   mains 

how  recovered.  "  ■■•    ^ 

caused  by  careless  undermining,  or  by  negligent  repacking  or 
filling  up,  of  excavations  for  private  drains,  sewers,  or  for 
other  purposes,  shall  be  chargeable  to  the  person  so  causing 
such  injury,  and  the  exj)ense  of  rej^airing  the  same  may  bo 
recovered  of  such  person,  by  the  commissioners,  in  an  action 
of  debt,  brought  upon  this  section. 
Duty  of  plumbers.  RuLE.  18.  It  shall  bc  thc  duty  of  each  and  every  plumber 
to  return  in  writing,  to  the  office  of  the  commissioners, 
during  the  first  week  of  each  month,  all  connections  or  ex- 
tensions of  service-pipe  made  by  him  not  before  returned, 
giving  the  location  of  the  premises,  the  name  of  the  owner  or 
occupant,  the  character  of  the  work,  the  number  of  hydrants, 


319 

baths,  water  closets,  fountains,  hose  fixtures,  or  other  fixtures, 
connected  with  such  works;   and   on   failure  thereof  every 
such  plumber  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  said  board  of  water  penalty. 
commissioners,  for  the  use  of  the  water  department,  the  sum 
of  five  dollars. 

EuLE  19.  Every  person  who  shall,  without  special  author-  fngtKa?n"pfpe' 
ity  from  the  commissioners,  tap  or  make  any  connection  with 
any  street  main,  or  service  or  other  distributing  pipe  con- 
nected with  the  water  works,  shall  upon  conviction  thereof 
by  the  Police  Court  of  said  city,  be  subject  to  a  fine  not  ex- 
ceeding thirty  dollars,  or  imprisonment  not  exceeding  thirty  _ 
da,j8,  or  such  fine  and  imprisonment  both,  at  the  discretion  of 
said  court. 

Rule  20.  If  any  person  except  firemen,  for  the  uses  <^f  fif<frkeduJeOT*"' 
the  Fire  Department,  shall  open  any  public  hydrant,  or  stop-  hydrantl*"'"'^^"^"'' 
cock,  without  the  consent  of  the  commissioners,  or  if  any 
person  shall  place  any  building  material,  or  other  articles  or 
rubbish,  in  such  manner  as  to  hinder  or  obstruct  the  free 
access  to  any  such  hydrant  or  stop-cock,  every  person  so 
offending  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof  by  the  Police  Court, 
be  subject  to  a  fine  not  exceeding  thirty  dollars,  or  by  impris- 
onment not  exceeding  thirty  days,  or  both,  at  the  discretion 
of  said  Police  Court. 

EuLE  21.     If  any  person  shall  disturb  or  meddle  with,  or  penalty  for  med. 

•^     ■••  ^  dhng  with  or 

fish  in  the  waters  of  the  reservoirs,  or  the  water  of  the  Con-  inSs^waler*'''"'' 

works. 

necticut  river,  near  the  inlet  of  the  pumping  engine,  or  shall 
cast  any  substance,  filth,  or  impurities  therein,  or  shall  tres- 
pass upon  the  embankments  of  the  reservoir,  or  travel  over 
the  same,  or  any  part  of  the  public  grounds  connected  there- 
with, except  upon  the  graveled  or  paved  walks,  or  shall  wil- 
fully injure  any  pipe  or  fixtures  connected  with  the  water 
works,  every  person  so  offending  shall,  upon  conviction 
thereof  by  the  Police  Court,  be  subject  to  a  fine  not  exceed- 
ing thirty  dollars,  or  imprisonment  not  exceeding  thirty 
days,  or  to  such  fine  and  imprisonment  both,  at  the  discre- 
tion of  said  court. 

EuLE  22.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  police  of  the  City  of  D"«es  of  pouce  ae 

tf  i  >/  water  works. 

Hartford  to  exercise  a  vigilant  supervision  over  the  use  of 


320  RATES. 

the  water,  to  prevent  all  unnecessary  profusion  of  flow  and 
waste;  and  for  this  purpose  they  shall  have  the  right  of  free 
access,  at  all  proper  times,  to  any  premises  where  the  water 
is  used,  and  shall  report  all  cases  of  waste  and  of  profuse  and 
excessive  use,  which  shall  come  to  their  knowledge,  to  the 
Commissioners.  They  shall  also  report  to  the  Police  Court, 
for  prosecution,  all  violations  of  the  regulations  and  laws  of 
the  board,  or  of  the  city,  relating  to  the  water  works  of  this 
city,  which  comes  within  the  jurisdiction  of  said  Police 
Court. 


I 


RATES. 

The  annual  rates  for  the  use  of  water  after  the  first  day  of 
May,  1862,  shall  be  as  follows,  viz : 

FAMILIES. 

1.  For  each  tenement  with  inside  fixtures,  occupied 

by  one  family  not  exceeding  five  persons,   .         .  $5  00 
For  each  additional  person, 1  00 

2.  For  each  tenement  occupied  by  two  families  or  any 

number  of  separate  occupants,  not  exceeding  five 

persons, 7  00 

Exceeding  five  and  not  exceeding  eight  persons,    .     8  00 
For  each  additional  person,     .         .         .         .         .     1  00 

3.  For  each  tenement  occupied  by  three  families  or 

any  number  of  separate  occupants,  not  exceed- 
ing ten  persons,    ....         .         .         .  10  00 

For  any  greater  number  of  families  or  separate  oc- 
cupants, such  rate  as  may  be  fixed  by  the  com- 
missioners. 

4.  Families   not    exceeding  eight  persons,   supplied 

from  outside  hydrants, 5  00 

For  each  additional  person, 50 

Or  less  at  the  discretion  of  the  commissioners. 


RATES.  321 

BOARDING  HOUSES. 

5.  Minimum  rate, $6  00 

and  a  greater  rate  according  to  size  and  occu- 
pancy. 

HOTELS. 

6.  Minimum  rate, .  25  00 

and  a  greater  rate  according  to  size  and  occu- 
pancy. 

STORES. 

7.  For  stores  and  offices,  from      .         .         .  $1  00  to  10  00 

RESTAURANTS. 

8.  For  restaurants,  etc.,         .         .         .         .     5  00  to  30  00 

MARKETS. 

9.  For  markets, 5  00  to  15  00 

WATER  CLOESTS. 

10.  For  each  family  not  exceeding  eight  persons,         .  3  00 

For  every  four  additional  persons,  .         .         .  1  00 

For  each  additional  water  closet,     .         .         .         .  1  00 

(For  hotels,  stores,  and  all  other  buildings, 

from $1  00  to  8  00 
BATHING  TUBS. 

,  For  each  family  not  exceeding  eight  j)ersons,         .  1  00 
For  hotels,  barber  shops,  and  all  other 

buildings,  from $1  00  to  6  00 

URINALS. 

12.  For  each  used  by  one  family,  .         .         .         .     1  00 
For  hotels,  stores,  and  all  other  buildings, 

from $1  00  to     6  00 

FOUNTAINS  AND  JETS. 

13.  For  each  100  gallons  discharged,  .         .         .3  cents 

HOSE. 

14.  For  street,  sidewalk,  or  garden  sprinkling,  such 
rate  as  shall  be  determined  by  the  commis- 
sioners, not  less  than $3  00 


RATES. 


LIVERY  AND  PRIVATE  STABLES. 

15.  For  each  horse,  including  water  for  washing  car- 

riages,         

For  each  cow, 

Truckman's  stables,  for  each  horse, 

BAKERIES. 

16.  Not  exceeding  500  barrels  of  flour  per  annum, 
For  each  additional  barrel  used,  . 

BUILDING  PURPOS      . 

17.  For  each  1,000  brick, 

For  each  perch  of  stone,       . 
For  each  100  yards  of  plastering, 

STEAM  ENGINES. 

18.  Working  not  over  12  hours  per  day,  for  each 
horse-power  used, 

19.  For  any  manufacturing,  mechanical,  chemical,  or 

other  purpose,  not  specified  in  the  foregoing 
tariff,  such  rate  as  shall  be  determined  b}"  the 
commissioners,  but  in  no  case  less,  for  each  100 
gallons,  than 

20.  The  rates  of  water  for  each  100  gallons,  where 

the  actual  quantity  is  determined  by  meter, 

shall  be  as  follows : 
For  any  quantity  not  exceeding  500  gallons  per 

day,  per  each  100  gallons,         .... 
For  any  quantity  exceeding  500  gallons,  and  not 

exceeding  1,000  gallons  per  day,  per  each  100 


.   $2  00 

1  00 

1  50 

5  00 

.  1  cent 

.  4  cents 

.  li  cents 

.  20  cents 

$6  00 


1    cent 


3  cents 


gallons. 


.  2i  cents 


For  any  quantity  exceeding  1,000  gallons,  and 
not  exceeding  2,000  gallons  per  day,  per  each 
100  gallons, 

For  quantities  greater,  such  rates — not  less  than 
1  cent  for  each  100  gallons — as  shall  be  fixed 
by  the  commissioners. 


2  cents 


SUPPLEMENTARY   RATES.  323 

■21.  In  all  cases  where  water  is  required  for  purposes  not 
specified  in  the  foregoing  tariff,  the  rate  shall  be  fixed 
by  the  board  of  water  commissioners. 

I      Approved  by  concurrent  vote  in  Court  of  Common  Council, 

I  April  14,  1862. 

Attest 

LEYI  WOODHOUSE, 

City  Clerk 


SUPPLEMENTAEY  RATES. 

OFFICES. 

Offices  supplied  from  faucet  inside  the  same,  $5  00  to  $10  00 
Offices  supplied  from  faucet  outside  the  same,     1  00  to     5  00 

BARBER  SHOPS. 

For  barber  shops  with  two  chairs  or  less,     .         .         .     5  00 
For  barber  shops  with  more  than  two  chairs  the  rate 

for  each  chair, 2  00 

i  ...^„™. 

For  photographers,  according  to  quantity  of 

water  used, |10  00  to  50  00 

MANUFACTORIES,  WORKSHOPS,  ETC. 

For  manufactories  or  workshops  employing  not  more 
than  ten  persons,  water  for  drinking  and  washing 
purposes,  supplied  from  faucet  inside  the  same,     .     5  00 

For  each  additional  person  employed,  ....         50 

For  manufactories  or  workshops  employing  not  more  .. 
than  ten  persons,  water  for  drinking  and  washing 
pui-poses  supplied  from  faucet  outside  the  same,    .     3  00 

For  each  additional  person  employed,  .         .         .         .        30 


324  SUPPLEMENTARY   RATES. 

GREENHOUSES  AND  GRAPERIES. 

Minimum  rate, $5  00^ 

And  a  greater  rate,  according  to  size  and  quantity  of 
water  used. 

BARS  AND  BEER  SALOONS. 

According  to  size  and  quantity  of  water  used,  $5  00  to  30  00 
Additional  for  hydrostatic  beer  pumps,  .     5  00  to  15  00 

SODA  FOUNTAINS. 

According  to  quantity  of  water  used.    .         .  $3  00  to  10  00 

SLOP  SINKS. 

For  families  or  other  buildings,  each,    .         .         .         .     1  00 

STEAM-HEATING  APPARATUS. 

For  dwellings  and  other  buildings  rate  according  to 
quantity  of  water  used. 

PASTURE  HYDRANTS. 

Bated  according  to  quantity  of  water  used  and  wasted, 

not  less  than, 5  00 


ADDEI^DA 


AN  ACT 

CONCERNING    COMMON    PLEAS    AND    DISTRICT    COURTS. 

When  any  iudeje  of  the    Court  of  Common  Pleas  or  Dis- judge  uDawe  to 

•^     •'         °  hold  terra,  substi- 

trict  Court  shall  be  unable  to  hold  any  term  of  the  court,  he  ^"aTed!""* '^"''^' 

or  the  clerk  of  the  court  shall  notify  the  chief  justice,  or,  in    '  *' 

case  of  his  inability,  the  senior  judge  of  the  Supreme  Court 

of  Errors,  who  shall  thereupon  assign  and  direct  any  judge 

of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  or  District  Court,  or  any 

judge,  assistant  judge,  or  recorder  of  any  city  court  or  police 

court,   of  the  County,  to  hold  it.     The  jud^e  of  any  police  Judge  of  Pouce 

'  -^  '  0         O  J     r  c„„rt  n,ay  hold 

court  may  hold  a  court  of  common  pleas  in  the  same  manner  coun  of  eommon 
as  a  judge  of  a  city  court  is  authorized  so  to  do  by  Section  18, 
Chapter  II,  Title  lY,  of  the  General  Statutes. 


ORDINANCES. 


CONCERNING  TELEGRAPH  AND  TELEPHONE  POLES. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the   Court  of  Common   Council  of  the  City 
of  Hartford : 

Section  1.     All  telegraph  and  telephone  companies  owninej,  signs  to  be  placed 

^       -^  ^  ^  ^    on  telegraph  and 

erecting,  maintaining,  or  using  poles  located  in  the  highways  teiephon.  poies. 
and  public  places  of  the  city,  shall,  on  and  after  May  1,  1884, 


326 


ADDENDA. 


Penalty. 


Penalty. 


cause  to  be  placed  and  kept  on  each  pole  owned,  erected, 
maintained,  or  used  by  them,  a  legible  and  durable  sign, 
which  shall  state  thereon  the  name  of  the  company  owning, 
erecting,  maintaining,  or  using  said  pole,  and  which  shall  also 
bear  thereon,  in  letters  plainly  visible,  the  words,  "  Post  no 
Bills." 

Sec.  2.  Any  company  which  shall  neglect  to  comply  with 
the  provisions  of  the  foregoing  section,  shall  forfeit  and  pay 
to  the  City  of  Hartford  a  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  day 
of  such  neglect. 

Sec.  3.  Any  person  who  shall  wilfully  injure,  deface,  or 
remove  such  sign  from  any  telegraph  or  telephone  pole,  shall 
be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction 
thereof,  shall  pay  a  fine  of  five  dollars  for  each  offence. 

Approved,  January  29,  1884. 


CONCERNING   THE   AUDITING   OF    THE    ACCOUNTS    OF   THE   CITY 
COLLECTOR. 


Accounts  of  City 
Collector,  when 
audited. 


Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the   City 
of  Hartford: 

That  Section  7  of  Chapter  III,  of  the  Eevised  Ordinances 
of  the  city,  adopted  January  28,  1884,  be  and  the  same 
hereby  is  amended  by  striking  out  the  Avord  "last"  before 
"business"  in  the  second  line  thereof,  and  substituting  there- 
for the  word  "first,"  so  that  said  section  as  amended  shall 
read  as  follows : 

Section  7.  Said  committee  of  ways  and  means  shall,  at 
least  twice  in  each  year,  to-wit :  on  the  first  business  days  of 
April  and  October,  examine  and  audit  the  accounts  of  the 
city  collector,  and  report  the  result  of  such  examination  to 
the  Court  of  Common  Council. 

Approved,  February  26,  1884. 


ADDENDA.  327 


CONCERNING   THE    CLERK    OP    THE    POLICE    COURT. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford  : 

Section  1.     The  clerk  of  the  Police  Court  shall  hereafter  cierkof  ponce 

Court  to  render 

quarterly,  on  the  tenth   days  of  January,  April,  July  and ''""^''^'^  ■"'"""*• 

October  in  each  year,  render  a  detailed  account  to  the  ways 

and  means  committee  of  the  Court  of  Common  Council,  of 

all  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  said  Police  Court  for  the 

quarter  ending  on  the  first  of  said  months,  and  thereupon 

pay  over  to  the  city  treasurer  such  sum  as  may  be  due  from 

him  to  the  city  upon  said  account.     The  ways  and  means 

committee  shall  audit  said  account,  comparing  the  same  with 

the  books  and  papers  of  said  clerk,  and  submit  said  account 

with  the  result  of  their  audit  endorsed  thereon  to  the  Court 

of  Common  Council. 

Sec.  2.     The  provisions  of  existing  ordinances,  and  of  the  Repeal. 
revision  adopted  January  28,  1884,  which  provide  that  said 
clerk  shall  annually,  on  the  first  day  of  July,  account  with 
the  city  auditor  for  said  receipts  and  expenditures,  are  hereby 
repealed. 

Approved,  February  26,  1884. 

concerning  the  burial  op  dead  animals. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Hartford  : 

Any  person  owning,  keeping  or  having  the  care  or  custody  Body  of  dead  animai 
of  any  animal,  who  shall  suffer  or  allow  its  body  to  lie  ex- 
posed or  unburied  in  any  place  in  the  City  of  Hartford,  for  a 
longer  period  than  twelve  hours  after  its  death,  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  may  be  punished  by  a 
fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  ten  dollars. 

Approved,  February  26,  1884. 


to  be  burled. 


I 


INDEX 


I 


INDEX 


Abatement  of  assessment  on  horse  railroad  companies, 

of  nuisances  by  Health  Committee, 
Acceptance  of  charter,  how  had, 
Accounts,  council  may  prescribe  mode  of  keeping, 
of  auditor, 
treasurer,     . 
clerks  of  courts,  . 
city  attorney, 
park  commissioners, 
street  commissioners, 
water  commissioners, 
annual,  of  auditor,  how  and  when  rendered  to  council, 
treasurer,  how  and  when  rendered  to  council, 

I  clerks  of  courts,  when  and  how  made, 

semi-annual  of  water  rates,  etc.,  to  be  rendered  to  council, 
monthly,  of  water  fund  to  be  rendered  to  treasurer, 
of  city  treasurer,  how  and  when  audited, 
city  collector,  how  and  when  audited. 
Acting'  Mayor,  who  and  when, 
Acting*  President,  board  of  aldermen  to  choose, 
powers  and  duties  of,        ...         . 
Added  Territory,  how  taxed,    . 

Addenda, 

Adjournment  of  case  in  police  court  before  trial, 

bail  how  taken  on,  in  police  court,  . 
Adulteration  of  food,  how  detected  and  prohibited, 

milk  prohibited, 
Advertisement  of  ordinances  and  rules  de  cleaning  sidewalks, 
of  resolution  laying  out  public  work, 
(See  publication). 
Air,  council  may  make  openings  for  circulation  of, 

may  assess  expense  of  as  benefits, 
Alarm  (see  fire  alarm). 
Aldermen,  when  and  how  chosen, 

term  of  oflice  of, 

qualifications  of  and  how  determined,     . 
number  in  each  ward,      .... 


Page. 

165 

256 

31 

13 

218 

219 

219 

220 

243 

280 

259 

218 

219 

219 

260 

88 

221 

221,  326 

16 

16 

16, 205 

166,  167 

325 

24 

25,72 

157 

156 

249 

271 

9,97 
97 


5,  16,  202,  204 

5 

4,  5,  202,  203 

5 


2,  39-42, 


332 


INDEX. 


Aldermen^  vacancy,  how  filled, 

presiding  oflScers  at  ward  meetings, 
powers  as  such,        .... 
how  notified  of  election^ 
certificates  of  election  of, 
senior,  may  call  city  meetings  when, 

oath  of, 

Aldermen,  Board  of,  how  composed, 

judge  of  election,  and  qualification  of  its  members 
mayor  presiding  oflScer  of, 

may  give  casting  vote  in  case  of  tie, 

city  clerk,  clerk  of, 

to  choose  one  of  their  number  as  acting  president 
acting  president  of,  when  acting  mayor, 
powers  and  duties  of  acting  president  of, 
one-half  of  to  constitute  a  quorum, 
to  choose  city  jurors,  how  and  when, 
to  confirm  nominees  for  various  commissions, 
member  of,  may  not  be  commissioner, 
meetings  of,  how  warned,        .... 

duties  of  clerk  of, 

journal  of,  how  kept,  published  and  distributed, 
Alley,  council  may  regulate  width  of,        .         .         . 

width  of,  regulated, 

Amendments  of  charter  by  general  assembly,  . 
notice  of,  required, 
sundry,  confirmed. 
Amendments  to  Constitution  de  terms  of  judges, 

compensation  of  public  oflicers 
aid  to  railroads. 
Amusements  (see  public  amusements). 
Amusement  Committee,  how  appointed, 

power  of  to  license  amusements,  etc., 
may  determine  fees  for  licenses, 
Animals,  council  may  regulate  speed  of  in  streets,  etc., 

running  at  large  of,  . 
impounding  of, 
restrain  cruelty  to, 
violation  of  ordinance  regulating  speed  of,  a  misdemeanor 

restraining  cruelty  to,  a  misdemeanor, 
council  may  remove  from  city  those  injurious  to  health, 

running  at  large  of,  a  nuisance, 

a  misdemeanor, 
permitting,  to  stand  upon  cross-walks,  a  nuisance, 
blocking  up  street  with,  a  nuisance, 
driving  drove  of,  through  streets,  when  a  nuisance, 
pasturing  or  running  at  large  of,  in  streets  forbidden. 


INDEX. 


333 


Page. 

Animals,  impounding  of,  regulated, 282, 283 

impounded,  subject  to  replevin, 283 

burial  of  dead, 327 

Appeals,  none  in  actions  for  penalties  and  forfeitures,     ....  15 

allowed  in  all  prosecutions  for  violation  of  charter  and  ordinances,  71 

for  injuries  to  fire  alarm  telegraph,  T71~ 

in  justice  cases, 19,  59 

from  city  and  police  courts, 17,  22,  58,  71,  140, 174 

city  court,  to  supreme  court, 70 

superior  court,  when  allowed,    ....  17 

bonds  on, 17 

execution  after,  .  17 

none  allowed  on  suits  on  recognizances, 18 

from  police  court  when  taken, 22 

must  be  to  superior  court, 22 

.  bonds  on, 22 

fees  on, 25 

appeal  papers  and  duty  of  clerk,  ...  71 

clerk's  fees  for  copies,  .  .      •  .         .  67 

from  assessments,  must  be  allowed, 51, 100 

to  whom  taken, 100,  111 

when  taken,  .  100, 112 

form  of, 100,  112 

form  and  mode  of  service  of,      .         .  100,  112 

reapportionment  upon,       ....  100, 112 

additional  assessments  and  notice,  .        113 

any  number  of  parties  may  join  in,    .  .        112 

various  provisions,       .         .         .         ...        112 

reference  of,  to  committee,  ....        112 

powers  of  judge, 113 

may  be  heard  by  successor  of  judge,  113 

revision  of  decision  of  judge,  114, 115 

costs  on, 113 

papers  to  be  lodged  with  city  clerk,     ...        113 

clerical  errors  may  be  corrected,  .  .        115 

when  work  may  proceed  pending,  .         .        114 

from  appraisal  of  damages  where  stream  is  diverted,       ...         101 

decision  of  railroad  commissioners  in  re  alteration  of  grade 

crossings,   .  .        108 

directing  gates,  etc.,  at 

crossings,  .         119 

discontinuing  switching,        121 

from  conviction  as  vagrant, 140 

order  closing  halls,  etc.,  149 

upon  inspection  of  building,  .....        150 

allowed  in  prosecution  for  injuries  to  fire  alarm,      ....        174 

Appendix. 307 


334 


INDEX. 


Appraisal  of  Damages  (see  damages  and  public  works). 

Apprentices,  to  Hartford  home, 

Appropriations,  for  public  works  limited, 

for  public  celebrations, 

navigation  of  Connecticut  river, 

public  library  and  art  gallery,     .... 

in  excess  of  annual  estimates  only  by  two-thirds  vote 

council  may  make, 

not  to  be  exceeded, 

for  apparatus  to  test  gas  and  gas  meters, 
Arrest,  power  of  coroner  to, 

without  warrant,       ....  24,  136, 139,  141 

authority  of  police  to, 

accompanied  with  breaking  into  house,  . 

of  tramps,         ........ 

vagrants, 

Art  Gallery,  appropriation  for, 

Assemblages  (see  disorderly  assemblages). 

Ashes,  places  where  kept,  under  supervision  of  fire  marshal 

when  deposited  in  street  to  be  placed  in  vessels, 

street  commissioners  to  remove,  when  and  how, 
Assessment  of  Benefits  (see  benefits.) 
Assessment  Lists,  by  whom  and  how  made, 

upon  what,  taxes  to  be  laid,     . 
Assessors,  town  to  be,  city  assessors, 

compensation  of,      . 

lists  of,  when  and  how  made,  . 
Assignment  by  police,  of  fees  in  police  court. 
Assistant  Engineer  (see  engineer). 
Attorney  (see  city  attorney  and  prosecuting  attorney). 
Auciioneers,  non-resident,  to  have  licenses, 

licenses,  how  given  and  revoked, 
Auditing  Committee,  how  composed  and  appointed, 

auditor,  chairman  of,  ex-officio, 

claims  against  city,  to  be  referred  to, 

duties  of, 

Audit  of  accounts  of  clerk  of  police  court, 
clerk  of  city  court, 
treasurer, 
collector, 
water  board,     . 

of  bills  and  claims  against  city. 
Auditor  (see  city  auditor). 
Associate  Judge  of  city  court,  how  chosen, 

office  of,  abolished 

of  police  court,  how  chosen  and  term  of  oflice, 
powers  and  duties  of,  . 


142 


Page. 


189,  190 

8 

37 


( 


144, 


141, 


38,  123 

38 

131 

131 

152 

.  14,57 

145,  269 

136,  265 

136 

139 

142,  269 

38 

228 

248 

248 

298 

298 

298 

298 

•298 

265 

127 

127 

218 

218 

218 

218 

219,  326 

219 

221 

221,  326 

88 

218-220 

18 

61 

35,63 

63 

INDEX. 


335 


Associate  Judge  of  police  court,  compensation  of, 

(See  judges). 


Page. 

63,  285 


Baggage  Wagon  (see  public  carriages). 

Bail,  on  adjournment  of  case  in  police  court,    . 

Ball  Playing  in  streets  forbidden, 

Ballots  at  elections,  how  cast,    . 

Barns,  council  may  regulate  location  of,    . 

carrying  lighted  candle  into,  prohibited, 
violation  of  ordinances  de  location  of,  a  misdemeanor. 
Barouche  (see  public  carriages). 

Baskets,  for  charcoal, 

Bathing  in  public  places  may  be  regulated  by  council, 
violation  of  ordinance  regulating,  a  misdemeanor, 
naked,  where  prohibited. 
Bells,  council  may  regulate  the  ringing  of, 

driving  sleigh  without,  prohibited. 
Bench  Warrant,  police  court  may  issue. 
Benefits,  council  may  create  lien  for, 

to  be  a  lien, 

when  lien  attaches, 
lien  for,  how  continued  and  recorded, 
how  foreclosed, 
K.  land  may  be  sold  for,  when  and  how, 

^B  when  payable,  and  notice, 

^K  discount  for  payment  within  five  days, 

^B  how  collected,  .... 

^K  street  commissioners  may  assess, 

«  expense  of  work,  on  whom  and  how  assessed, 

property  to  be  specifically  described  in  assessment, 
not  to  be  deducted  from  damages, 

may  be  deducted  from  damages 

ordinances  to  prescribe  notice,  etc.,  of  assessment  for, 
appeals  from  assessments  for, 

to  whom  taken,  .... 

when  taken, 

form  and  mode  of  service  of,        . 
reapportionment  under, 
additional  assessments,  and  notice, 
any  number  may  join  in,     . 
various  provisions  de,  ... 

powers  of  judge  on,     .... 
may  be  heard  by  successor  of  judge, 
revision  of  decision  of  judge  on, 
clerical  errors  may  be  corrected  on, 
may  be  assessed  upon  land  not  abutting, 
assessment  of,  upon  estates  of  deceased  persons, 


J5,_72^ 
247 
202 
13 
228 
128 


11 
128 
254 

11 

247 
24 
14 

104,110,116,278 
104, 110,  111,  278 
104,  278 
14,  279 
99,  279 
104,  111,  277 
278 
267,  278 
51 
98,  110 
99 
99 
115 
99 
100,  111 
100,  111 
100,  112 
100,  112 
100,  112 
113 
112 
112 
100, 113 
113 
114, 115 
115 
109 
109 


336 


INDEX. 


98 


Benefits  to  be  assessed  before  constructing  work, 

entire  expense  of  work  shall  be  assessed  as,     . 

manner  of  assessing  (see  public  works), 

deduction,  when  cost  of  work  less  than  estimates, 

assessments  of,  upon  horse  railroad  companies,  how  abated, 

assessments  of,  when  stream  or  dam  is  taken, 

on  change  of  grade  of  highway, 
Betterments  (see  benefits). 

Bicycle  riding,  through  streets  forbidden,  .... 

Billiard  Saloons,  may  be  prohibited,  licensed  and  regulated, 

violation  of  ordinances  de  a  misdemeanor. 

Bill  Posting,  without  right,  forbidden, 

Bills  to  common  council  to  be  itemized,  .... 

Binding  Oyer,  police  court  to  bind  over,  when  and  how, 

fees  of  clerk  for  copies  on,        ..... 

transmission  of  papers,  and  duty  of  clerk. 
Births,  council  may  regulate  registration  of,     . 

annual  reports  of,  by  registrar, 
Births,  Marriages  and  Deaths  (see  registrar  of  births,  marriages 

Blacksmith  Shop,  license  for,  required, 

Board  of  Aldermen  (see  aldermen,  board  of). 

Board  of  Common  Council  (see  common  council,  board  of). 

Board  of  Canvassers,  how  constituted, 

quorum  and  powers  of, 

mayor  presiding  oflScer  of,        .... 

when  meet, 

certificates  of  election  and  proclamation, 

proceedings  in  case  no  election  found, 

city  clerk,  clerk  of, 

clerk  pro  tern  of,  how  chosen. 
Board  of  Health  (see  health  committee). 
Board  of  Fire  Commissioners  (see  fire  commissioners). 
Board  of  Park  Commissioners  (see  park  commissioners). 
Board  of  Police  Commissioners  (see  police  commissioners). 
Board  of  Street  Commissioners  (see  street  commissioners). 
Board  of  Water  Commissioners  (see  water  commissioners). 
Boilers,  steam,  council  may  regulate  location  of, 

violation  of  ordinances  de  location  of,  a  misdemeanor. 
Bonds  of  city  officers,  council  may  provide  for, 

of  clerk  of  city  court, 

port  warden, 
city  collector, 

various  city  officers,  how  executed  and  conditions, 
penal  sums  of,  ... 

on  appeal  from  city  court  to  superior  court, 

on  execution  from  city  court  after  appeal, 

on  appeals  from  police  court,  .... 


Page. 
110 

272 
,110,272-278 
110,  277 
165 
102 
116 

247 

11 

128 

247 

307 

23 

67 

71 

158 

302 

and  deaths). 
253 


203 
203 
203 
203 
204 
204 
205 
205 


13 

128 

12,  18,  23,  29 

18 

56 

170 

232 

.  56,232 

17 

17 

22 


INDEX. 


337 


Bonds  on  adjournments  in  police  court,    . 

for  prosecution  of  actions,  how  taken  in  vacation, 
city,  not  impaired  by  charter, 
purchase  of  railroad,  by  city,  forbidden, 
capitol,  authorized  by  general  assembly, 

city  meeting  to  authorize, 
park,  authorized  by  general  assembly, 

city  treasurer,  trustee  of,  ... 

how  issued,  applied  and  managed, 
water,  authorized  by  general  assembly,  . 
general  provisions  concerning, 
proceeds  of,  how  applied,  and  bonds,  how  managed, 
city  treasurer,  trustee  of  certain, 
water  commissioners,  trustees  of  certain 
provisions  for  payment  of,    . 
sinking  fund  for  payment  of, 
for  purchase  of  Hartford  bridge,  authorized,  . 
0  regulations  de  issue  and  use 

general  power  to  issue, 

Bonfire,  building,  without  mayor's  permission  forbidden, 
Borrowing  Money,  council  may  regulate. 
Boundaries  of  city,  defined, 
southern,  extended, 
western,  extended, 
'  northern,  extended, 

of  the  several  wards. 
Bowling  Alleys,  council  may  prohibit  license,  regulate,  etc 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor, 
Box-tenders,  how  appointed,  and  who  may  be, 

oath  of, 

pay  of, 

Brawling  in  public  places  forbidden,        .... 

power  of  mayor  and  chief  of  police  to  prevent. 
Breach  of  the  Peace,  persons  guilty  of,  may  be  arrested  without  warrant 

in  prosecution  for,  judgment  may  be  suspended 
Bridge,  railings  upon  sides  of,  required,    . 

use  of  railroad  near  covered,  .... 
(See  Hartford  bridge). 
Building,  council  may  regulate  mode  of,  . 

materials  used  in,      .  .12 

Bnildings,  council  may  regulate  moving  of,  in  streets, 
punish  trespasses  in  public, 
regulate  mode  of  using, 

use  of,  to  prevent  fires,   . 
alterations  in, 
provide  for  openings  between,  for  air, 
inspection  of, 


Page. 

25,72 

65 

30 

35 

81,82 

— 81- 

83,84 

83 

83 

86-93 

86-93 

86-91,  219 

90,  91,  92 

.     87, 89 

89-91,  219 

88 

93 

93 

85,86 

246 

9 

1,39,40,41 

39 

40 

41 

42-46 

11 

128 

75,  202 

79 


204 
246 
269 
24 
24 
117 
118 


12,  149 

98,  149 

11 

11 

12,  148 

148 

12 

9,97 

148 


338 


INDEX. 


Building's^  council  may  provide  for  repair,  removal,  etc.,  of  unsafe, 

public  safety  in, 
enact  various  ordinances  de, 
may  provide  for  appointment  of  inspector  of, 
and  shall  cause  inspection  of, 

proceedings  in  inspection  of,  

council  may  pass  and  enforce  certain  orders  de  condemned, 
shall  require  safe  exits  and  entrances  to  certain, 
may  close  certain  unsafe, 

what,  to  be  provided  with  fire  escapes, 

when  and  how,  may  be  demolished  at  fires, 

power  of  fire  marshal  to  enter,  etc., 

fire  marshal  may  order  scuttles  upon, 

regulations  concerning  erection  of, 

materials  to  be  used  in, 

consent  of  council  required  for  erection,  etc., 

petition  for  erection  of,  to  specify  what, 
how  referred, 

removal  of,  through  streets,  when  a  nuisance, 

deposit  of  material  for,  in  street,  when  a  nuisance, 

erection  of  upon  street  or  over  building  line,  a  nuisance, 

permitting  snow  to  remain  on  roofs  of,  when  forbidden, 

when  liable  to  four-fold  taxation,     . 

penalty  for  injuring  public,      .... 

permitting  disorderly  conduct  in,  punished, 

owners  of,  to  provide  privy  accommodations, 

(see  public  buildings).  • 

Building  Lines,  council  may  establish  and  alter, 

penalty  of  four-fold  taxation  for  encroachments  on, 

ordinances  de,  suspended  in  northern  extension, 

powers  of  street  commissioners  concerning, 

encroachments  upon,  declared  nuisances, 

how  made  and  altered, 

Building  Materials  (see  buildings). 
Burial  of  Dead,  council  may  regulate, 

provide  for  returns  of. 
Burning  Fluids,  inspection  of,  how  provided  for, 
Burial  Case,  certificate  required  on  sale  of, 

sale  of  regulated, 

Business,  not  to  be  carried  on,  on  sidewalk, 

various,  to  be  licensed,  .... 

injurious  to  health  may  be  removed  from  city, 
By  Laws  (see  ordinances). 


Cab  (see  public  carriages). 

Calf  (see  animals). 

Candle,  carrying  into  barn  when  forbidden, 


228 


INDEX. 


Canrassers  (see  board  of  canvassers). 

Cannon,  firing,  without  mayor's  permission,  forbidden,    . 

Capias,  power  of  police  court  to  issue,      .... 

Capitol  Bonds  (see  bonds). 

Captain  of  Police  (see  police,  captain  of). 

Cards,  forms  of,  for  carriage  drivers  and  expressmen, 

Carriages  (see  public  carriages). 

Carriage  Stands,  where  located, 

Cars,  council  may  regulate  speed  of,  in  streets, 

violation  of  ordinances  de  speed  of,  a  misdemeanor, 

only  one  allowed  on  Asylum  street  turnout  near  depot, 
Caskets,  certificate  required  on  sale  of,     . 

sale  of,  regulated, 

Casting  Tote,  when  mayor  may  give  in  board  of  aldermen, 

in  joint  conventions, 
in  police  board, 

when  president  of  council  board  may  give, 
Cattle  (see  animals). 
Cedar  Hill  Cemetery,  special  police  for, 

jurisdiction  of  police  court,  over,     .... 
Celebrations,  appropriations  for,  limited. 
Cellars,  in  streets,  when  a  nuisance,         .... 
Cemeteries,  trespasses  in,  may  be  punished, 

violation  of  ordinance  de  trespassing  in,  a  misdemeanor, 

trespasses  in,  how  punished, 

^L  what  assemblages  in,  forbidden,       .... 

B  (See  Cedar. Hill  cemetery). 

nbertiflcate  of  election  to  be  given  person  elected, 

for  sale  of  coflBn,  form  of, 

*who  may  make,    ... 
of  death,  who  shall  make,  and  penalty  for  neglect, 
Chairman  of  Health  Committee,  salary  of,        .        .        . 

(See  health  committee). 

Challenges,  how  decided, 

Charcoal,  inspector  of  fire  wood  to  provide  baskets  for  measuring, 

penalty  for  selling  from  other  baskets, 
Cliarges  of  hackmen,  etc.,  council  may  regulate, 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor, 

(See  public  carriages). 
Chariot  (see  public  carriages). 
Charter, 

how  accepted  and  voted  on,     . 

amendable  by  general  assembly, 

notice  of  proposed  amendment  to, 

and  sundry  amendments  confirmed, 

all  parts  of  former,  not  re-enacted  or  superseded,  repealed, 

no  bond  or  obligation  impaired  by,  .... 


339 

Page. 

246 
23 


2M^^9§^^^ 

292 

10 

128 

312 

300 

300,  301 

16 

16 
262 
207 

60 

61 

37 
244 

11 
128 
251 
270 

204 
300 
300 
300 

284 

7,76 
209 
209 

12 

15 


1 
31 
31 
46 
54 
30 
30 


340 


INDEX. 


I 


Charter,  repeal  of  seventh  section  of,    '   .        . 

right  of  appeal  in  all  prosecutions  for  violation  of, 
of  Hartford  City  Gas  Light  Company, 
Hartford  Electric  Light  Company, 

Hartford  Home, 

Hartford  Hospital, 

Hartford  and  Wethersfield  Horse  Railroad  Company, 
Hartford  Steam  Company,  .... 

Charter  Oak  Park,  jurisdiction  of  police  court  over. 
Checkers  at  elections,  how  appointed,       .... 

oath  of, 

duties  of, 

pay  of, 

Check  List,  how  completed  and  deposited  after  election. 
Chief  Engineer  (see  engineer). 
Chief  of  Police  (see  police,  chief  of). 
Churches,  what  assemblages  before,  unlawful, 
council  may  require  safe  exits, 
close  unsafe, 
Cigar,  carrying  lighted,  into  barn,  forbidden, 
City  territorial  limits  of,    . 

corporate  name,  ... 

may  sue  and  be  sued, 
a  body  politic  and  corporate,  . 
may  purchase  and  hold  real  estate, 
may  have  seal,  .... 

property,  how  vested  in, 
jurisdiction  of;  on  Connecticut  river, 
shall  not  interfere  with  navigation  of  Connecticut  river, 
shall  not  tax  commerce  on  Connecticut  river, 
annual  meetings  of,  when  and  where  held, 
what  officers  chosen  at, 

wards  of,  number, 

boundaries,       ..... 

how  governed, 

constituted  one  highway  district, 
liable  for  former  obligations,  under  what  name, 
can  not  grant  extra  compensation,  when, 
can  not  subscribe  to  stock  of  railroads,   . 
powers  of  de  public  improvements  in  northern  extension, 
may  issue  certain  bonds,  and  how, 
general  power  to  issue  bonds, 
may  join  in  purchase  of  Hartford  bridge, 
support  of  free  public  library,  etc.,  by, 
moneys  due,  to  whom  payable, 
(see  court  of  common  council). 
City  Assessors  (see  assessors). 


1,39 


Page. 

96 

71 

181 

193 

187 

182 

184 

192 

60 

76, 202 

79 

76 

204 

7,76 


270 

150 

150 

228 

40,41 

2 

9 


42-46 

8 

10 

30 

35 

35 

42 

81-91 

85,86 

93,  94 

38,123 

219 


INDEX. 


341 


City  Attorney,  how  appointed  and  term  of  ofl&ce, 

oath  of, 

bond  of, 

duties  and  compensation  of,     . 

may  bring  complaint  to  police  court, 

may  sue  for  recovery  of  fines  and  penalties, 

shall  keep  a  register  of  actions  to  which  city  a  party 

street  commissioners  may  employ, 

to  make  quarterly  payments  to  treasurer, 

to  render  quarterly  account  of  charges,  . 

to  make  annual  report,     .         . 

when  and  how  may  employ  associate  counsel 
City  Auditor,  when  and  how  chosen, 

deputy,  when  and  how  appointed,  . 

oath  of, 

bond  of, 

salary  of, 

duties  of, 

to  audit  accounts  of  water  board,  how  and  when 

may  require  oath  on  voucher, 

payments  by  treasurer  to  be  upon  order  of, 

form  of  order, 

when  may  draw  order,     .... 
for  salaries,  . 

ex-offido  chairman  of  auditing  committee, 

to  keep  lists  of  officers  and  employees  of  city, 

to  receive  duplicates  of  all  receipts  of  treasurer 

accounts  of,  how  kept, 

to  render  annual  account. 
City  Clerk,  when  and  how  chosen, 

oath  of,  

salary  of, 

compensation  of,  for  making  list  of  electors,  . 

fees  for  recording  licenses  for  public  carriages, 

office  of,  how  provided,  .... 

may  employ  messenger,  .... 

duties  of, 

clerk  of  board  of  aldermen,     .... 

duties  of,  as  clerk  of  board  of  aldermen, 

clerk  of  joint  convention,        .... 

clerk  of  board  of  canvassers, 

custodian  of  records  and  papers  of  common  council 

to  prepare  list  of  electors, 
preserve  voting  lists, 
keep  on  file  papers  in  appeals  from  assessments,  etc., 
publish  ordinances  and  how, 

duty  of  de  election  returns. 


18, 19, 


226, 


Page. 

18,  19,  206 

233 

232,  233 

220,286,307 

23 

14,  220,-228- 

220 

.'0 

220 

220 

220 

220 

4,201 

218 

233 

232,  233 

284 

218 

88 

129 

217 

217 

217 

286,  302 


265, 


218 
218 
219 
218 
218 
201 
233 
284 

6 
290 
208 
208 

4 

16 
207,  208 
205 
205 
205,  208 

6 

7 
113 
135 
203 


15. 


342 


INDEX. 


City  Clerk  to  give  certificates  of  election  of  certain  officers, 

to  send  to  auditor  copies  of  votes  authorizing  expenditures, 

to  record  licenses  for  sale  of  gunpowder 

to  keep  highway  book, 

to  record  licenses  for  public  carriages, 

records  of,  as  evidence,   . 

certificate,  prma/acie  evidence  of  publication  of  ordinance 

jproiempore  when  appointed,     . 
powers  of, 

certain  acts  of,  validated, 
of  joint  conventions. 
City  Collector,  when  and  how  chosen, 

term  of  office  of,       . 

oath  of,  

bond  of, 

removal  from  office, 

vacancy,  how  filled, 

compensation  of,  and  how  borne, 

office  of,  how  provided, 

office  hours  of,  .... 

council  may  regulate  duties  of, 

to  collect  all  city  taxes,    . 

powers  of,  in  collecting  taxes, 

to  give  notice  when  taxes  will  become  payable 

may  enforce  collection  by  foreclosure  or  suit, 

to  make  monthly  payments  to  treasurer, 

accounts  of,  how  audited, 

accountability  of,     . 

deficiency  in  accounts  of,  how  collected, 

to  deliver  rate  bill  to  successor. 
City  Court,  when  holden,         .... 

shall  have  a  seal, 

power  of  adjournment, 

how  composed, 

recorder,  how  appointed,  and  term  of  office, 

associate  judges  of,  .... 

substitute  judge  of,  .... 

vacancy  for  unexpired  term  of  judge,  how  filled, 

jurisdiction  of, 14,10,17,50,58,59 

judgments  of,  how  enforced,    . 

executions,  how  served  and  returned, 

appeal  from  to  superior  court,  when  allowed, 

bonds  on  and  execution  after, 
supreme  court, 

clerk  of,  how  appointed  and  sworn, 
to  give  bonds, 
bond  of,      . 


220, 


Page 

204 

217 

238 

279 

290 

4 

15,135 

47 

47 

47 

205 

4,201 

169,  170 

233 

170 

170 

169 

169 

169 

169 

13 

4,171 

299 

167, 168 

172 

170 

221,  326 

299 

299 

171 

16 

65 

16,17 

18,61 

18,35 

18,61 

19,69 

19 

228,  239 

17 

17 

17 

17 

70 

18 

18 

233 


n 


INDEX. 

City  Court,  clerk  of,  duties  and  authority  of, 

compensation  of,        ...         . 
continuances  and  defaults,  how  ordered, 

taxable  fees  in, 

appeals  from  justices,  to,  .... 

motion  in  error  from,  when  and  where  taken, 
powers  of,  on  motions  in  error, 
stay  of  executions  on  motions  in  error, 
joinder  of  motions  in  error  and  for  new  trial, 
appeals,  substituted  for  motions  in  error,  etc., 
writs  of  error  from,  to  superior  court, 
supreme  court, 
joinder  of  matters  of  fact  and  law  in  writ  of  error, 
judge  of,  may  try  issues  of  fact, 

may  reserve  questions  of  law,  . 

may  grant  new  trials  and  bills  of  exceptions, 
injunctions,       .... 
service  of  process  to,  on  defendant, 
neglect  to  serve  or  return  process  to,  how  punished, 

false  return,  how  punished, 

recorder  may  act  as  judge  of  court  of  common  pleas, 

may  hold  special  session  of  court  of  common  pleas, 

compensation  of,  when  so  acting, 

kform  of  complaint  in,  to  recover  fines  and  penalties, 
jarors  of,  how  chosen, 
how  drawn  and  summoned, 
oath  of,      . 
H  fees  of,      . 

"^  penalty  for  refusal  to  serve, 

six,  to  try  certain  cases, 
fees  and  costs  to  be  paid  to  clerk, 

•contingent  expenses  of,  to  be  paid  by  clerk,  and  how  repaid, 
City  Elections  (see  elections). 
City  Limits  (see  boundaries). 

City  Map,  power  of  city  to  make  lines  on  map,  binding. 
City  Marslial,  when  and  how  chosen 
term  of  office, 
bond  of,  . 
fees  of,     . 

powers  of,        .         .         . 
may  appoint  two  deputies, 
may  serve  process  returnable  to  police  court, 
may  convey  persons  sentenced  to  jail, 
to  serve  warrants  for  city  and  council  meetings 
to  serve  warrant  to  collect  deficiency  from  collector, 
subject  to  direction  of  mayor, 
liability  lor  neglect  of  duty. 


343 

Page. 
18 

65,  66,  67,  217 

19 

19,66,73,217 

^    12^59^ 

19,69 

20,69 

20 

69 

70 

70 

71 

70 

21 

69 

69 

59 

20 

20 

20 

62, 325 

62,  325 

64 

68 

21,  216 

21,  216 

21 

286 

217 

21 

219 

219 


47 

4,201 

5 

232, 233 

23,  286 

3,4 

4 

23 

26 

205 

299 

4 

4 


344 


INDEX. 


City  Meetings,  annual,  when  and  where  held, 

special,  when  and  how  called, 

council  may  prescribe  manner  of  warning,  and  time  and  place  of 
holding, 

what  warnings  of,  shall  contain, 

mayor  to  designate  places  of  holding, 

council  may  prescribe  who  shall  preside  at,     . 

may  examine  under  oath  persons 
ing  to  vote, 

moderator  of,  how  chosen, 

polling  places  to  be  within  wards, 

what  officers  chosen  at  annual, 

for  election  of  officers,  how  proceeded  with,  .         6, 7, 

general  election  law, 

when  polls  to  be  opened, 

powers  and  duties  of  presiding  officer  at,        .         .         . 

disorderly  conduct  at,  how  punished,       .... 

ward  clerk  at, 

penalty  for  illegal  or  double  voting,  .... 

who  may  vote  at,  and  where  to  vote,        .... 

how  aldermen  and  councilmen  chosen,  .... 

canvas  of  votes  at,  and  result,  how  proclaimed, 

penalty  for  making  false  returns, 

notice  of  election  of  ward  officers,  how  given, 

proceedings  in  case  of  no  election,  or  vacancy, 

required  to  approve  certain  appropriations, 

(See  elections). 

(See  ward  meetings). 
City  Officers  (see  officers). 

City  Penitentiary,  may  be  established  and  rules  for  prescribed, 
City  Police  Court  (see  police  court).  ^ 

City  Rate-Maker  (see  rate-maker). 
City  Surveyor,  council  may  provide  for  election  of, 

prescribe  duties  of, 

when  and  how  appointed  and  term  of  office, 

oath  of, 

duties  of,  .... 

salary  of, 

street  board  to  conform  to  plans  of, 
City  Treasurer,  when  and  how  chosen, 

bond  of, 

oath  of, 

salary  of,  .... 

power,  authority  and  duties  of, 

to  receive  all  moneys  payable  to  city, 

to  give  duplicate  receipts, 

to  receive  certain  fines  and  penalties, 


offer- 

13 

75,  200,  201 
.  3,  199 
3, 4, 199 

74,  75,  200-204 

75-80 

200 

3,  7,  200 

200 

201 

201 

75,  201 

4,202 

203 

203 

203 

204 

8 


26 


12 
12 

280 
233 
281 
284 
280 

4,201 
232 
233 
284 

4,219 

219 

219 

15 


INDEX. 


345 


City  Treasurer  to  receive  moneys  collected  by  clerks  of  courts, 

to  receive  moneys  collected  by  keepers  of  jails  for  fines, 

port  warden,  . 
avails  of  water  rents, 

to  apply  avails  of  water  rents,  how, 

to  have  custody  of  fund  for  disabled  policemen, 
funds  of  Hartford  Home, 

to  be  trustee  of  certain  city  bonds, 

powers  of,  over  water  funds  and  proceeds, 

surplus  water  fund  subject  to  orders  of,  . 

may  set  off  benefits  against  damages, 

to  execute  conveyances  of  personal  property, 

to  pay  money  only  on  auditor's  order, 

accountability  of, 

to  render  annual  accounts, 

to  make  report  of  municipal  indebtedness  to  comptroller 

when  recognizances  on  adjournment  made  payable  to,    . 
City  Watch  (see  police). 
City  Weighers  (see  weighers). 
Clerk,  officers  not  to  contract  for  hire  of,  ... 

council  may  provide  for  election  of,  in  each  branch, 
prescribe  duties  of,       . 
Clerli  of  Board  of  Aldermen  (see  city  clerk). 
Clerk  of  City  (see  city  clerk). 
Clerk  of  City  Court,  how  appointed, 

oath  of, 

bond  of, 

authority  of,    . 

duties  and  powers  of, 

may  amend  and  complete  records, 

to  pay  contingent  expenses  of  court,  and  how  repaid 

to  receive  certain  fees,  costs,  etc.,     . 

to  pay  to  city  treasurer,  moneys  collected 

to  render  annual  account  to  auditor, 

form  of  accounts  of, 

how  to  draw  jurors, 

fees  of, 

Clerk  of  Council  Board,  how  and  when  chosen, 

who  may  not  be,      . 

oath  of,    . 

salary  of,  .... 

duties  of,  .... 

to  deliver  records  and  papers  to  city  clerk, 
Clerk  of  Elections,  how  chosen, 

to  give  notice  to  officers  elected, 

pay  of, 

Clerk  of  Fire  Commissioners,  salary  of, 


83, 


Page. 
26,  219 
26,  219 
56 
88 
88,  219 
T16 
189,  191 
85,  86,  91,  92 
258 
260 
115 
221 
217 
4 
219 
95 
25 


286 
13 
13 


18 

18,  233 

18,  233 

18 

65 

65 

219 

319 

26,  219 

219 

220 

216 

65,  66,  67,  217 
13,  16,  207 
16 
233 
284 
208 
205 
201 
203 
204 
285 


20/ 


346 


INDEX. 


I 


26 


Clerk  of  Police  Commissioners,  how  appointed 

salary  of,  .... 

Clerk  of  Police  Court,  how  appointed, 

oath  of,    .         . 

bond  of,  .... 

salary  and  fees  of,   . 

duties  and  powers  of, 

to  collect  fines  and  costs, 

to  pay  contingent  expenses  of  court  and  how  repaid 

to  pay  to  treasurer  moneys  collected, 

accounts  of,  how  kept, 
*       to  render  annual  account  to  auditor, 

to  render  quarterly  account  to  the  ways  and  means  committee 

may  amend  and  complete  records,  . 

duty  of,  on  appeals  and  binding  over, 
Clerk  of  Street  Commissioners,  how  appointed, 

compensation  of,  and  how  fixed. 
Clerk  of  Ward  Meeting,  how  appointed  and  duties, 

pay  of, 

Coach  (see  public  carriages). 

Coal,  to  be  weighed  by  city  weighers,when  sold, 

penalty  for  false  weighing, 

fees  for  weighing,     . 

penalty  for  selling  unweighed, 

three-bushel  tubs  for  measuring, 

penalty  for  refusing  to  measure  in  tubs,  when  required, 
Coasting,  in  highways,  how  prohibited,    . 
Coffins,  certificate  required  on  sale  of, 

sale  of,  regulated,      .... 
Coffin  Tender,  defined,      .... 

certificate  required  by,     . 

weekly  return  to  registrar, 

penalty  for  violation  of  ordinance  de, 
Collections,  fees  of  city  attorney  for, 
Collector  (see  city  collector). 
Commerce,  on  Connecticut  river  not  to  be  taxed  by  council, 

council  may  regulate, 

council  may  elect  oflBcers  for  regulation  of. 
Commissioners,  mayor  and  members  of  court  of  common  council  may 
not  be,  .... 

how  chosen  and  terms  of  oflSce, 

removal  of,      . 

vacancies  filled, 

(See  fire  commissioners.) 

(See  park  commissioners.) 

(See  police  commissioners.) 

(See  street  commissioners.) 

(See  water  commissioners.) 


Page. 
262 

285 

23 

233 

23,  232, 233 

23,  67,  284 

23,65 

25,219 

219 

,  65,  219 

219 

219,  327 

327 

,65 

71 

49 

50, 285 

201,203 

204 


208 

208 

209 

209 

211 

21 

118 

300 

301 

301 

30' 

301 

301 

28 


13 

132 
53 
53 
53 


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INDEX. 


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Page. 
Commissioners  of  Relief,  how  appointed,  duties  and  term  of  office  of,      .        100 

superseded, 51,  111 

Commissions  to  public  officers  and  agents  forbidden,        .  129 

Common  Council  Board,  members  of,  when  and  how  chosen,  .         •  4, 5,  202,  204 

term  of  office  of,     .         .         .         .  5 

qualifications  of  and  how  de-  ~ 

cided, 
four  in  each  ward, 
oath  of,  ... 

may  not  hold  certain  offices, 
how  notified  of  election, 
certificates  of  election 

vacancies  in,  how  filled, 

officers  of,  how  and  when  chosen,   .... 

may  choose  a  clerk, 

clerk  of,  not  to  be  a  member,    .  ... 

duties  of  clerk  of, 

one-half  of,  to  be  a  quorum, 

when  president  of,  may  vote, 

journal  of,  how  kept,  published  and  distributed, 
meetings  of,  how  warned, 

I  Common  Conncil,  Court  of,  how  composed, 
f          members  of,  must  be  electors,          .... 
I                                must  be  residents  of  ward  they  represent 
I                                may  not  be  on  commissions, 
I                                forbidden  to  accept  fees,  rewards,  etc., 
I                                how  chosen, 
I                                how  expelled, 
^          vacancies  on  tie  vote  or  otherwise,  how  filled, 
branches  of,  to  convene  separately, 
one  half  a  quorum  in  each  branch, 
joint  conventions  of,  mayor  presiding  officer, 

may  give  casting  vote, 
city  clerk,  clerk  of, 
clerk  pro  tempore,  how  chosen, 
for  election  of  certain  officers,  when  held,  64, 
with  mayor  form  board  of  canvassers,     . 
meetings  of,  how  warned,        .... 

duties  of  clerks  of, 

journals  of,  how  kept,  published  and  distributed, 

official  journal  of, 

city  clerk  custodian  of  records,  etc.,  of,    . 

powers  vested  in, 

each  branch  judge  of  election  of  its  own  members 
shall  reconsider  action  after  veto,    . 
limitations  on  appropriations  and  expenditures. 


4,5, 


4,5,202,203 

5 

233 

132 

203 

204 

5,204 

207 

16 

16 

207 

16 

207 

207 

205 

8 

5 

202 

132 

287 

4, 5,  202 

287, 288 

5,204 

8 

16 

16 

16 

205 

205 

206,  228 

203 

205 

207 

207 

208 

208 

8 

8,203 

8 

37,  38,  123 ' 


348 


INDEX. 


Common  Council,  Court  of,  may  make,  alter  and  repeal  ordinances, 
ordinances  of,  how  published  and  when  to  take  effect,    . 

may  revise  ordinances,  how, 

has  exclusive  power  to  lay  out  and  make  new  highways,  parks,  etc 
to  alter  lines  and  location  of  highways,  . 
to  discontinue  highways, 
to  sell  or  exchange  highways, 
to  establish  building  lines, 
to  make  openings  for  air  between  buildings, 
to  cause  low  grounds  to  be  filled  up  or  drained 
to  lay  out,  make  and  alter  sewers,    . 
to  order,  construct  and  alter  sidewalks,  gutters 

and  crosswalks,     .         .         ,         .         . 
to  establish  fire  districts, 
to  repair  and  alter  highways,  parks,  etc., 
to  assume  repair  of  turnpike  roads, 
to  lay  out  and  build  dyke, 
to  lay  taxes  for  city  expenses, 

deficiency  in  water  rents, 
support  of  "  Hartford  Home 
to  assess  expenses  of  public  work,  . 
to  enforce  the  collection  of  assessments* 
may  make  ordinances  to  regulate  trade,  markets  and  commerce, 

weights  and  measures, 
the  finances  and  property  of  the 

city, 
the  borrowing  of  money, 
the  execution  of  deeds, 
to  provide  for  evidences  of  debt,  . 
to  prevent  and  remove  nuisances, 
for  making  and  altering  highways,  parks,  etc, 
for  making  openings  between  buildings  for  a 
for  building  drains  and  sewers,     . 
for  establishing  building  lines,     . 
for  draining  and  raising  low  lands, 
for  repairing  highways,  parks,  etc., 
for  lighting  highways,  parks,  etc., 
for  keeping  streets,  parks,  etc.,  free  from  en 

croachments  and  obstructions,  . 
to  secure  safety  of  persons  in  public  places, 
to  regulate  fireworks,  shows  and  parades, 

rendezvous,  processions  and  music, 
speed  of  animals  and  vehicles, 
the  running  of  animals  at  large 
the  impounding  of  animals 
,  to  protect  and  preserve  trees  and  ornaments 

in  public  places, 


Page, 

9 

135 

135 

96 

97 

•      97 

97 

97 

97 

97 

97 

97 
98 
98 
98 
73 
98 
88 
188 
98,99 
99 


9 

:l 


9 

9 

9 

9 

9 

9 

10 

10 

10 

10 
10 
11 
11 
11 
11,  134 
11 

11 


INDEX. 


349 


Common  Council,  Court  of,  may  make  ordinances  to  regulate  and  pro 

hibit  excavations  in  streets, 
may  make  ordinances  to  prohibit  the   location  of  anything  in  or 

under  streets, 

to  prohibit  the  removal  of  buildings  through 

streets, 

to  prohibit  the  ringing  of  bells,    r 
the  crying  of  goods,    . 
to  keep  streets,  etc.,  quiet  on  Lord's  day, 
to  protect  state  house  yard, 
to  restrain  cruelty  to  animals, 
to  restrain  inhuman  sports,  . 
to  prescribe  form  of  taking  land  for  public 

use, 

to  prevent  vice  or  immorality, 

to  preserve  public  peace  and  order, 

to  quell  riots  and  disorderly  assemblages, 

to  suppress  gambling  houses, 

houses  of  ill-fame  and  disorderly 
houses,     .... 
to  give  mayor  and  police  certain  powers, 
to  prohibit,  license,  etc.,  sports  and  exhibi 

tions, 

to  regulate  and  prohibit  bathing  in  public 

places, 

to  punish  trespasses   in    public  buildings 

cemeteries,  etc.,         .... 
to  regulate  the  burial  of  the  dead, 
to  provide  for  registration  of  deaths  and 

burials, 

J^^  to  regulate  mode  of  city  taxation, 

H|  •  duties  of  police,  . 

^B  to  confer  upon  police,  powers  of  constables, 

^B  to  punish  resistance  of  officers, 

^B  to  organize  and  regulate  a  fire  department, 

^K  to  regulate  fire  apparatus, 

to  protect  city  from  exposure  to  fire,     . 


11 

11 
11 

11, 158 
11 
11 
11 
11 
12 
12 
12,  148 

to  regulate  mode  of  building,       .         .    12, 148, 149 
materials  to  be  used  in  build- 
ing, ....    12,148,149 
mode  of  using  buildings,    .    12, 148, 149 

12 
12 


Page. 

11 

11 

~ll' 
11 
11 
11 
11 
11 
11 

11 
11 
11 
11 
11 

11 
11 

11,  128 


to  license  and  regulate  hacks  and  carriages, 
to  fix  charges  of  hackmen,  expressmen,  etc., 
to  regulate  transportation  and  storage  of  gun- 
powder,      

to  prescribe  form  of  oaths  for  city  officers,  . 
to  regulate  width  of  streets,  alleys,  etc., 


12 

12,14 
12 


350  INDEX.  ^__»«^^____ 

Page. 
Common  Council,  Court  of,  may  make  ordinances  to  provide  manner  of 

warning  city  meetings,     .         .  12 

may  make  ordinances  to  provide  manner  of  warning  council  meetings,  12 

times  and  places  for  council  meet- 
ings,            12 

for  filling  vacancies  in  ofiice,        .  12 

for  bonds  of  city  officers,     .         .  12 
for  penalty  for  officer's  refusal  to 

serve, 12 

for  penalty  for  city  juror's  refusal 

to  serve, 12 

for  election  and  duties  of  various 

city  officers,      .         .         .         .    12,  13 

for  election  of  its  own  officers,     .  13 

to  prescribe  the  duties  of  its  own  officers,    .  13 

manner  of  keeping  city  accounts,  13 

places  of  holding  annual  elections,  13 
the  manner  of  holding  annual 

elections,        ....  13 
to  designate  who  shall  preside  at  elections, .  13 
who  may  examine,  under  oath, 
persons  offering  to  vote,        .  13 
to  prescribe  manner  of  balloting,         .         .  13 
to  provide  for  division  of  city  into  wards,    .  13 
for  the  election  of  city  officers,    .  13 
to  prevent  illegal  voting,      ....  13 
to  regulate  duties  of  collector  of  taxes,         .  13 
to  prescribe  mode  of  collection  of  taxes,  13 
to  confer  freedom  of  the  city,       .         .         .  13 
to  regulate  location  of  steam  boilers,   -        .  13 
of     barns,     out-houses, 
sinks,  etc.,  .         .         .  .  13 
to  prescribe  compensation  of  officers,  .         .  13 
duties  of  officers,       ...  13 
to  carry  out  powers  conferred  by  Section  VIT.,  14 
to  prevent  illegal  practices  with  dead  bodies,  14 
to  provide  for  appointment  of  coroner,         .  14 
to  prescribe  duties  and  pay  of  coroner,         .  14 
compensation  of  juries  of  in- 
quest, etc.,      ....  14 
to  make  assessment  of  benefits  a  lien,          .  14 
to  provide  for  punishment  for  misfeasance 

in  office, 14 

to  authorize  mayor  to  administer  oaths  in 

all  courts, 14 

to  prescribe  time  and  place  of  holding  city 

courts, 14 


INDEX.  351 

Pack. 
Common  Council,  Court  of,  may  make  ordinances  to  prescribe  time  of 

election  of  judge  of  city  court  and  city 

attorney, 18 

may  make  ordinances  to  prescribe  duties  and  compensation  of  city 

attorney, 18 

to  prescribe  taxable  fees  in  city  court,  .        "TUT 

time  and  place  of  choosing  city 

jurors, 21 

©  manner  of  returning,  drawing 

and  summoning  city  jurors,    .  21 

oath  of  city  jurors,    .         .         .  21 

rules,    discipline,    etc.,    of   city 

penitentiary,  ...  26 

certain  duties  of  water  board,    .  29 

officers  of  water  board,      .         .  29 

compensation,  bonds  and  oaths 

of  members  of  water  board,  .  29 

manner  of  collecting  water  rents,  29 

securing  water  rents 
by  lien,  .         .  29 

quorum  of  water  board,     .         .  29 

manner  ofassessing  benefits  and 
appraising  damages,       .         .  51 

to  punish  injury  to  library  and  reading  room,        125 
to  license  temporary  business,      .         .         .        133 
street  peddlers  and  venders,     .      .        133 
to  suppress  gambling,  policy  playing,  etc.,     133,  134 
to  prevent  enticing  into  houses  of  ill  repute,        134 
to  prescribe  penalty  for  violation  of  certain 
ordinances,        .         .         .         .         .         .        134 

to  provide  for  inspection  of  buildings,  148, 149 

repair,  etc.,  of  unsafe  buildings,  148, 149 
to  regulate  use  of  buildings  for  public  safety,  148, 149 
to  regulate  exits  and  entrances  to  halls,  etc.,  148 
de  construction  of  buildings,         .         .         .        149 

de  public  health, 156 

de  registration  births,  marriages  and  deaths,        158 

to  punish  injuries  to  fire  alarm  telegraph,  174 

regulating "  Hartford  Home,"        .         -         .192 

may  impose  penalties  for  violation  of  ordinances,  .         .         .14, 134, 148 

make  violation  of  certain  ordinances  a  misdemeanor,     .  134, 148 

make  appropriations, 131 

37 
38 
38, 123 
38 
42 


for  public  celebrations, 

for  navigation  on  Connecticut  river, 

for  free  library,  etc., 

to  make  estimates  of  annual  expenses,    ..... 

power  of,  as  to  public  improvements  in  northern  extension,  . 


352 


INDEX. 


Common  Council,  Court  of,  appointment  of  city  clerk  pro  tempore, 
may  make  lines,  etc.,  on  map,  binding,    . 
election  of  street  commissioners  by, 
may  fix  compensation  of  members  of  street  board, 
shall  refer  all  votes  de  public  works  to  street  board, 
powers  of,  to  direct  street  board,      .... 
to  expend  receipts  from  tolls  on  river  in  improvement  of  navigation, 
to  report  to  general  assembly  de  Connecticut  river  tolls, 
to  appoint  prosecuting  attorney  in  joint  convention, 
shall  prescribe  compensation  of  prosecuting  attorney,     . 
may  prescribe  salary  of  port  warden,       ...... 

fix  compensation  of  registrars  of  election,        .... 

take  water  supply  from  Connecticut  river,        .... 

issue  bonds, 

shall  enact  ordinances  regulating  assessments,  etc., 

appoint  commissioners  of  relief,     ...... 

enact  ordinances  prescribing  proceedings  of  commissioners  of 

relief, ... 

power  over  streams,  dams,  etc.,  for  sewers  and  public  health, 
may  assess  benefits  on  land  not  abutting,        ..... 


47 

47 

48,53 

49 

50, 271 

280 
56 
56 
64 
64 
56 
79 
86 
81,  82,  84,  85,  86 
99 

100 


100 
102 
109 

proceedings  by,  in  assessing  benefits  and  appraising  damages,  110,  272,  e^  seq. 

shall  require  safe  exits  from  hall,  churches,  etc., 

may  close  unsafe  halls,  churches,  etc., 

provide  for  appointment  of  inspector  of  buildings, 
and  in  certain  cases  shall  cause  buildings  to  be  inspected, 
pass  and  enforce  certain  orders  de  condemned  buildings, 
purchase  apparatus  for  inspection  of  gas  and  gas  meters, 

duties  of  de  inspection  of  dams  and  reservoirs, 

may  provide  for  inspection  of  burning  fluids, 

regulate  inspection  of  leather,  hides  and  skins, 

adopt  sanitary  measures  and  ordinances, 

remove  animals,  trades,  etc.,  injurious  to  health, 

abate  assessments  upon  horse  railroad  companies,  . 

ofi'er  rewards  for  apprehension  and  conviction  of  criminals, 

prescribe  style  of  telegraph  and  telephone  poles,    . 

rules  and  regulations  of  water  board  subject  to  approval  of,    . 

water  rates,  subject  to  approval  of, 

may  establish  "Hartford  Home"  for  children, 

authority  of,  over  works  of  Hartford  Steam  Company,    . 

to  approve  use  of  streets  by  Horse  Railroad  Company,    . 

Hartford  Steam  Company,  . 
Hartford  Electric  Light  Company, 

power  of,  to  order  call  of  city  meetings, 

to  empower  and  approve  conveyances  of  city  property,  . 

power  of,  in  purchase  of  fire  engines  and  apparatus, 

to  choose  fire  marshal,     ........ 

health  committee,     ....... 


148, 150 

148, 150 
149 
149 
150 
153 
154 
155 
156 
156 
156 
165 
166 
173 

175,  260 

175,  260 
187 
193 

185,  186 
193 

194,  195 
205 
221 
226 

147,  228 
251 


INDEX. 


353 


Common  Council,  Court  of,  to  choose  city  surveyor, 

may  appoint  rate  maker,  ....... 

to  approve  election  of  president  of  water  board,     .         .         . 
buildings  not  to  be  erected  without  consent  of,        .         .         . 
petitions  to,  for  leave  to  build,  what  to  specify  and  how  referred, 
amusements  to  be  licensed  by,         .  .         .         •         . 

sale  of  gunpowder  to  be  licensed  by,        .         .  .         . 

carrying  on  certain  business  without  license  of,  prohibited,     . 
regulations  of,  de  drainage  of  stagnant  water, 
to  defray  expense  of  abatement  of  nuisance  by  health  committee, 
to  ratify  certain  contracts  of  water  board,        .... 

not  to  pass  vote  laying  out  public  work  until  publication. 


Page. 
280 
298 
258 
230 
230 
-83f>- 
237,  238 
253 
255 
255 
259 
271 
referred  to  street  board,  50, 272 


benefits  are  assessed, 


control  of  turnpike  roads  assumed  by,     . 
when  shall  lay  annual  and  other  taxes, 

Common  Coimcilmen  (see  common  council  board). 

Compensation  of  oflScers  (see  fees),  (see  salaries), 
for  land  taken  (see  public  works), 
(see  highways). 

Complaints  to  street  commissioners,  record  to  be  kept  of, 
(See  process.) 

Condemnation  (see  eminent  domain). 
(See  public  works.) 

Confirmation  of  charter  and  sundry  acts, 

of  commissioners,    ..... 

Connecticnt  Industrial  School,  commitment  to, 

Connecticut  Riyer,  jurisdiction  of  city  on, 
marshal  may  serve  process  on, 
city  shall  not  interfere  with  navigation  of, 
city  to  lay  no  tax  on  commerce  of,  . 
jurisdiction  of  police  court  over, 
water  board  may  take  water  from,  . 
appropriations  for  improving  navigation  of, 
speed  of  steam  vessels  on,  regulated, 
vessels  arriving  to  report  to  port  warden, 
tolls  to  be  paid  to  port  warden, 
council  to  expend  receipts  from  tolls  upon, 
council  may  build  dykes  along, 
powers  of  health  committee  on, 
public  landings  on,  in  charge  of  port  warden 
dockage  for  vessels  at  public  landing  places, 
depositing  rubbish,  etc.,  in,  forbidden,    . 
penalty  for  violating  orders  of  port  warden, 
regulations  de  transportation  of  gunpowder  on, 

Constables,  council  may  confer  powers  of,  on  police, 
special  for  arrest  of  tramps,     .... 


110 

279 

298,  299 


280 


51, 


143 


54,57 

53 

.145 

3 

3 

3 

3 

22 

27,86 

38 

55 

55 

55 

56 

73 

159 

214 

214 

215 

215 

236 

11 

139 


354 


INDEX. 


Constables,  special  for  arrest  of  vagrants, 

Cedar  Hill  cemetery, 
Coustitntional  Amendments,  de  terms  of  judges, 

compensation  of  public  offices 
aid  to  railroads, 
Construction  of  Ordinances,  rules  for, 
Construction  of  Public  Works  (see  public  works). 
Contested  Elections,  how  proceeded  with, 
Continuances  in  city  court,  how  ordered, 
Contracts  of  city  not  invalidated  by  charter, 
de  water  works,  how  made, 

use  of  water,  limited, 
what,  street  commissioners  may  make, 
Conyentions  (see  joint  conventions). 
Conveyances  by  city,  council  may  provide  for  execution  of, 

how  executed,  .... 

Coroner,  council  may  provide  for  election  of,    . 

prescribe  duties  of,  ... 

mode  of  appointment  of, 
compensation  of, 

powers  of, 

may  issue  process  in  certain  cases,  . 
repeal  of  powers  of. 

Corporate  Name, 

Corruption,  council  may  provide  for  removal  of  officer  for, 
officer  guilty  of,  to  be  removed,        .... 

of  water,  how  punished, 

Costs,  taxable  in  city  court, 

in  police  court, 

on  appeals  from  assessments, 

in  actions  for  seizure  of  gunpowder, 
taxable  on  appeal  from  order  de  condemned  building, 
when  payable  to  clerks  of  courts,  and  how  accounted  for, 
Councilmen  (see  common  council  board). 
Counters  at  elections,  how  appointed,  who  may  be,  and  duties  of, 

oath  of, 

Coupon  Bonds  (see  bonds). 

Courts,  council  may  prescribe  time  and  place  of  holding, 

authorize  mayor  to  administer  oaths  in,  . 
(See  city  court  and  police  court.) 
Court  of  Common  Council  (see  common  council,  court  of). 
Court  of  Common  Pleas,  has  sole  jurisdiction  of  justice  appeals, 
appeals  from  assessments  to  be  taken  to  judge  of,  . 
recorder  or  judge  of  police  court  may  act  as  judge  of,     . 

may  hold  special  session  of, 
compensation  of  city  judge  when  acting  as  judge  of, 
Cow  (see  animals). 


25,  65 


I 


Page. 

141 
60 
35 
35 
35 

303 


80 

19 

30 

259 

260 

280 


9 
221 
12 
13 
14 
14 
14 
14 
57 
2 

14 
287 
30,  319 
19,  73,  217 
71,  142, 145 
113 
239 
150  J 
219 


i 


76,  202 

77 

14 
14 


59 
111,  113 

62 
.  62,325 

64 


INDEX. 


355 


Crosswalks,  council  may  make  ordinances  for  making,  laying  out,  and 
constructing,    .... 

council  may  order,  construct  and  alter,    . 

allowing  animals  to  stand  upon,  forbidden, 

street  commissioners  to  lay,  when,  . 
Crowd,  unlawful,  how  dispersed. 
Cruelty  to  Animals,  council  may  pass  ordinances  restraining, 

violation  of  ordinances  restraining,  a  misdemeanor. 
Crying  of  Goods,  council  may  regulate,   .... 
Curbstone,  breaking,  how  punished, 
Currier's  Shop,  health  committee  may  inspect, 


Page, 

9 

97 

246 

307 

270 

11 

128 

11 

246 

252 


Damages,  for  taking  land,  etc.,  for  water  purposes,  how  ascertained  and 

paid, 

for  interruption  of  travel  by  water  commissioners,  when  and  to 

whom  payable,     .         .         .         . 
treble  for  injuries  to  water  and  water  works, 
where  highway  laid  out  is  discontinued, 
by  reason  of  change  of  grade  in  highway, 
for  injuries  from  defective  highway, 
for  removal  of  structures,  etc,  injurious  to  water, 
from  explosion  of  gunpowder,  unlawfully  kept,  how  recovered, 
when  land  taken  for  public  work  must  be  agreed  upon  or  appraised, 
must  be  ascertained  before  construction  of  public  work 
street  board  vested  with  power  to  appraise, 
land  owners  to  be  agreed  with,  if  possible, 
notice  required  before  appraisal, 

manner  of  appraising, HO, 

appraisal  of,  when  stream  diverted, 

ri  when  stream  or  dam  taken, 

when  land  taken  in  altering  grad 
appeals  from  appraisals  of,  must  be  allowed 
carry  with  them  appeal  from  benefits, 
to  whom  taken,  and  how  heard, 
council  to  provide  form  and   mode  of 

service  of, 100 

how  served  and  when  returnable,  100, 112 

powers  of  judge  upon,  .  100,113 

reference  of,  to  committee,    .  .        112 

various  provisions  c?e,    .  112-115 

may  be  heard  by  successor  of  judge,  113 

clerical  errors  may  be  corrected  on,       .        115 
revising  decision  of  judge  upon,    .  114, 115 

benefits  may  not  be  deducted  from, 99 

may  be  deducted  from,       .  115 

may  be  deposited, 99, 104 

how  deposited,  when  land  owner  is  a  non-resident,  minor,  etc.,      .        276 
(See  public  works.) 


e  crossings. 


28,99 

29 

30 

116 

116 

117 

180 

240 

99 

110 

51 

273 

99,  273 

272-277 

101 

102 

108 

51,  101 

112 

100,  111 


356 


INDEX. 


i 


2,  39-42 


Dams,  council  given  power  over,  for  sewerage  and  purposes  of  public 

health, 

assessment  of  l)enefits  and  damages  when  taken  for  public  use, 

inspection  of,  how  provided  for, 

Dead,  council  may  regulate  burial  of,         .....         . 

Dead  Bodies,  council  may  prevent  illegal  practices  with, 

violation  of  ordinances  de  illegal  practices  with,  a  misdemeanor, 

transportation  of,  in  public  carriages,  regulated. 
Death,  certificate  of,  required,  .... 

penalty  for  refusing  to  sign,     .      ,    . 

powers  of  coroner  in  certain  cases  of. 
Deaths,  council  may  provide  for  returns  of, 

annual  and  monthly  reports  of,  by  registrar. 
Debt,  council  may  provide  for  evidences  of, 

power  of  city  to  issue  bonds  for, 

what  persons  and  property  liable  for  bonded 

taxes  for  payment  of,  when  and  how  laid,       .... 

treasurer  to  make  reports  to  comptroller  once  in  four  years,  . 

form  of  action  of,  in  city  court, 

(See  bonds.) 
Deeds  of  city,  council  may  provide  for  execution  of,         ... 

how  executed, 

Defaults  in  city  court,  how  ordered, 

Deputy  Auditor,  when  and  how  appointed, 

(See  city  auditor.) 
Deputy  City  Marshals,  number  of  and  how  appointed, 

(See  city  marshal.) 
Deputy  Inspectors  of  Fire-wood,  appointment  of,      .        . 

(See  inspector  of  fire-wood.) 

Deputy  Registrar,  pay  of, 

Discontinuance  of  Highway,  damages  upon, 

how  accomplished,  .         .         .         .         . 

(See  highway.) 
Disorder,  violation  of  ordinances  concerning,  a  misdemeanor. 
Disorderly  Assemblages,  council  may  prevent  and  quell, 

power  of  mayor  and  chief  of  police  to  suppress,     . 

on  sidewalks  and  in  public  places,  prohibited. 
Disorderly  Conduct,  those  guilty  of,  may  be  arrested  without  warrant, 

judgment  for,  in  police  court  may  be  suspended,  when,  . 

permitting,  in  buildings,  how  punished, 
Disorderly  Houses,  council  may  suppress, 

penalty  for  keeping,         .... 

when  policeman  may  not  enter. 
Distillery,  maintaining  without  license  forbidden 
Dockage  on  Connecticut  river. 
Dogs,  driving,  in  harness,  through  highway,  a  nuisance, 


Page. 

102 

102 

153-155 

11 

14 

128 

296 

300 

300 

14,57 

11 

301 

9 

85,86 

166,167 

299 

95 

14,67 

9 

221 

19 

218 


210 

204 
116 
271 

15 

11 

268-270 

270 

24,  269 

24 

251 

11 

251 

268 

253 

214,  215 

247 


INDEX. 


357 


of,  on  persons  and 


Drains,  council  may  build  in  public  places, 
provide  for  location  of, 

violations  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor, 

from  highways  into  or  through  private  lands, 

discharging,  into  streets,  a  nuisance. 
Drainage  of  low  lands,  council  may  provide  for, 

assess  expense 
property, 

how  accomplished, 

of  highways  into  or  through  private  lands, 

of  stagnant  water, 

into  street  a  nuisance,      .... 
Drivers  in  fire  department,  appointment  and  tenure  of  ofiice  of. 

salaries  of, 

public  (see  public  carriages). 
Driving  at  greater  speed  than  six  miles  an  hour  prohibited, 

goat  or  dog  in  harness,  a  nuisance,  ..... 

bicycle,  a  nuisance, 

sleigh  without  bells  a  nuisance, 

Drunkenness,  those  guilty  of,  may  be  arrested  without  warrant, 

judgment  for,  in  police  court  may  be  suspended,     . 
Dylies,  council  may  build, 

to  be  treated  as  public  works, 

(proceedings  to  lay  out  and  build, 
expense  of,  may  be  assessed,  • 
expense  of,  how  assessed, 
(See  public  works.) 


Page. 

9 

13 

128 

105 

244 

9,97' 

99 
271 
105 
255 
244 
222 
223 

245 

247 

247 

247 

24 

24 

73 

73 

73,  271 

98 

99, 271 


Election,  annual  city,  when  and  where  held,    ... 
special  city,  when  and  how  called,  ... 

of  certain  officers,  council  may  provide  for,  . 
of  its  own  officers,  council  may  provide  for,  . 
council  may  prescribe  manner  of  warning  and  time  and  place  of 

holding, 

what  warnings  of,  shall  contain, 

mayor  to  designate  places  for  holding,     ... 
polling  places,  to  be  in  respective  wards, 

when  polls  to  be  opened, 

powers  of  presiding  officer  at,  .... 

disorderly  conduct  at,  how  punished, 

for  aldermen  and  councilmen, 

for  city  officers,  how  proceeded  with,       .... 

.  general  election  law, 

ward  clerk, 

moderator,  who  may  be  and  how  chosen, 
box-tenders,  who  may  be  and  how  chosen,     . 
moderator  at  Second  ward,  presiding  officer  at  city. 


74,  75 


3,199 

205 

12 

12 

12, 199 

80 

199 

199 

200 

3,  7,  200 

200 

4,202 

200-204 

75-80 

76, 201 

75,200 

75,  202 

75 


358 


INDEX. 


Election,  who  may  vote,  and  in  what  ward, 

challenges,  how  decided,         ... 
checkers,  how  appointed  and  duties  of,  . 
check  lists,  how  completed  and  deposited, 
counters,  how  chosen  and  duties  of, 

count,  how  proceeded  with, 

result,  how  declared, 

certified, 

double  ballots  not  to  be  counted, 

defined, 

lawful  ballot  defined, 

boxes  to  be  sealed  and  deposited  with  town  clerk 

officers  of,  to  be  sworn, 

what  officers  of,  may  administer  oaths,  . 
registry  lists  for  city,  how  prepared, 

notice  of  meeting  for  revision  of, 
when  completed  to  be  deposited  with 

clerk, 

compensation  of  registrars,  how  determined, 
contested,  how  proceeded  with,        ..... 

proceedings  in  case  of  tie  vote  at, 

to  fill  vacancy,         .         .  ..... 

pay  of  officers  of, 

sale  of  liquor  on  days  of,  prohibited,        .... 

notice  of,  to  ward  officers,  how  given,      .... 

penalty  for  illegal  or  double  voting,         .... 

false  swearing  upon  examination  at,    . 

Electors  of  city,  who  may  be, 

one  year's  residence  in  city  required,      .... 

sixty  days'  residence  in  ward  required,  .... 

voting  place  in  case  of  change  of  ward  within  sixty  days, 
list  of,  how  made,    ........ 

name  omitted  from  list,  how  added,        .... 

list  of,  how  checked, 

punishment  for  false  swearing, 

(See  elections.) 
Embezzlement,  defined  and  how  punished,      .... 
Eminent  Domain,  when  water  commissioners  may  exercise  right  of, 

proceedings  in  such  case, 

right  of  may  be  exercised  in  construction  of  public  works, 
how  exercised  in  such  case,        .... 
may  be  exercised  de  dams  and  streams, 
how  exercised  in  such  case,        .... 
may  be  exercised  at  railroad  crossings, 
how  exercised  in  such  case,       \,        ,        .        . 
(See  public  works.) 


Page. 

5,  75, 201 

7,  76, 202 

7,  76,  202 

7,76 

76,  202 

76,  202 

77,  202 
77,  203 

78 
78 
78 
78 
79 
79 
6,79 
79 


I 


city 


79 
79 
80 

5,12,204 

12,  204 

204,  285 

138 

203 

201 

7 

5,75 

5 

5 

5 

6,79 

6,76 

7,76 

7 

130 

28 

28 

99 

99,  271 

101, 102 

101, 102 

106,108 

106, 108 


INDEX. 


359 


.  224 


Enclosures,  council  may  prevent  trespasses  in,  .         .        .        .         . 

violation  of  ordinances  de  trespasses  in,  a  misdemeanor, 
Encroachments  (see  highways). 

Engine,  driving  of  fire,  on  sidewalk,  a  nuisance,       .  .         .         . 

Engineer,  chief  of  fire  department,  appointment  and  tenure  of  office  of, 

salary  of, 

duties  of, 

powers  of,  at  fires,     .         .  224, 

may  stop  travel  in  highway, 
may  demolish  buildings,  . 
to  designate  rank  of  assistants, 
returns  and  annual  report  of,    . 
assistant  of  fire  department,  appointment  and  tenure  of  oflice  of, 

salary  of,     . 

designation  and  rank  of, 
duty  of,  in  case  of  fire, 
duty  of,  in  absence  of  chief, 
powers  of  at  fires, 

of  steamer,  salary  of, 

must  be  practical  machinist, 

give  whole  time  to  business. 
Enticing  into  disreputable  houses,  may  be  punished. 
Error,  clerical,  may  be  corrected  on  appeals  from  assessments, 

(See  appeal,  motion  in  error  and  writ  of  error.) 
Equity,  jurisdiction  of  city  court  in,  .... 

Estates  of  deceased  person,  assessments  of  benefits  upon, 
Estimates,  annual,  not  to  be  exceeded,     .... 

not  to  be  increased  but  by  two-thirds  vote 
Excavations  in  streets,  regulated  by  council,     . 
H^  forbidden  and  declared  nuisances, 

^^  regulations  concerning. 

Execution,  power  of  city  court  to  issue,    .... 

►          may  be  issued  after  appeal, 
stay  of,  on  motion  in  error, 

power  of  police  court  to  issue. 
Exemptions  from  taxation  in  added  territory,  .         .        2, 39, 40, 41 

of  certain  lands  in  South  Meadow, 
North  Meadow, 
Exhibitions,  council  may  prohibit,  license,  regulate,  etc., 

(See  public  amusements.) 
Expenditure  for  public  works  restricted,  . 

celebrations  restricted, 
library,  restricted, 
not  to  exceed  appropriation,    . 
annual  estimates  of,  to  be  made  by  council, 
limited  to  annual  estimates,     . 
street  commissioners  to  make  annual  report  of, 
water  commissioners  to  make  semi-annual  report  of, 


Page. 

11 

128 

245 
^22_ 
223 
224,  225 
226,  227 
227 
227 
227 
225 
222 
223 
227 
224 
225 
226,  227 
223 
224 
224 
134 
115 

58,59 

109 

38 

38 

10 

245 

122,  245 

17,20 

17 

20 

22 

166, 167 

40 

42 

11, 128 

8 

37 

38, 123 

131 

38 

38 

51 

260 


360 


INDEX. 


Explosiyes,  setting  off,  without  mayor's  permission,  a  nuisance. 
Expressmen,  council  may  regulate  charges  of,  .        .         .        . 

prescribe    punishment    for    violation    of   ordi- 
nances de, 

(See  public  carriages.) 
Express  Wagon  (see  public  carriages). 
Expulsion  from  oflfice,  what  grounds  for,  . 
proceedings  for, 
charges,  how  preferred, 
Extra  Men  in  fire  department,  salary  of,  . 


False  Alarm,  penalty  for  giving, 
False  Pretences,  jurisdiction  of  police  court  de, 
False  Statement,  not  under  oath,  how  punished. 
False  Swearing,  by  elector,  how  punished 

before  police  commissioners, 
Fares  of  H.  &  W.  H.  E.  K.  Co., 

of  public  carriages, 
Farming  Lands,  taxation  of,    . 
Farming  Produce,  taxation  of. 
Farming  Stock,  taxation  of,    . 
Fees  in  city  court,  how  prescribed, 
prescribed, 

in  police  court, 

for  serving  process  to  police  court, 

of  special  prosecuting  attorney, 

of  clerks  of  courts, 

of  witnesses  before  police  commissioners, 

for  hearing  complaint  de  truants,     . 

for  witnesses  before  fire  marshal,     . 

for  inspection  of  gas, 

of  dams  and  reservoirs, 

of  food,     . 

of  vessel,  by  health  oflScer 

for  weighing  coal,    . 

for  measuring  wood, 

for  weighing  hay,     . 

for  sealing  weights  and  measures 

none  to  fire  marshal, 

of  pound  master,     . 

of  city  marshal, 

of  city  attorney, 

of  jurors  in  city  court, 

of  city  clerk,  for  recording  carriage  licenses, 

of  city  clerk,  for  returns  of  births  and  deaths, 

(See  salaries.) 


Pagk. 

246 

12 

134 


287 
287,  288 

288 
223,  224 


228 

61 

7 

7 

137 

186 

294 

2,39,40,41,166,167 
2,39,40,41,166,167 
2,  39,  40,  41, 166, 167 
19, 217 


INDEX. 


361 


Fences,  when  required  for  protection, 

defacing,  along  highway,  a  nuisance, 

maintaining,  in  highway,  a  nuisance, 
Fertilizers,  keeping,  without  license,  prohibited, 
Fighting"  in  streets,  a  nuisance,  .... 

Filtli,  street  commissioners  shall  cause,  to  be  removed, 

powers  of  health  committee  concerning, 

casting,  on  streets,  prohibited, 

keeping,  in  buildings,  yards,  etc.,  prohibited,  . 

placing,  in  or  on  the  margin  of  Park  river, 

Connecticut  river, 

casting,  into  reservoirs,  prohibited, 
Finances,  council  may  pass  ordinances  regulating, 

(See  bonds.) 
Fines  (see  penalties). 
Fire  Alarm,  penalty  for  giving  false, 

(See  superintendent  of  fire  alarm.) 
Fire  Alarm  Telegraph,  council  may  punish  injuries  to, 

police  court  jurisdiction  of  injuries  to, 

appeals  allowed  in  prosecution  for  injuries  to. 
Fire  Apparatus,  council  may  regulate, 

under  supervision  of  fire  commissioners, 

regulations  as  to  purchase  and  repair  of, 

penalty  for  injuring  or  defacing, 
Fire  Arms,  discharge  of,  regulated,  .... 
Fire  Commissioners,  board  of,  how  constituted, 

political  composition  of  board  of,     . 

Ihow  appointed  and  term  of  office,  . 
who  ineligible  for  appointment, 
vacancies,  how  filled, 
how  removed, 

oath  of, 

shall  receive  no  compensation, 

disbursements  of,  to  be  repaid, 

salary  of  clerk  of,     . 

powers,  rules  and  records  of,  • 

to  have  control  of  fire  department, 

to  fill  vacancies  in  department  and  how, 

to  have  control  of  department  property, 

hydrants,    .... 
to  designate  location  of  companies,  engines,  etc., 
to  prepare  rules,  etc.,  for  department, 
responsible  for  order  and  discipline  of  department, 

care  of  apparatus,  etc.,     . 
when  may  order,  repair,  etc.,  of  apparatus,     . 
powers  of,  in  exchanging  apparatus,  property,  etc., 

to  authorize  demolition  of  buildings  at  fires, 
two,  to  approve  vouchers  for  pay  of  department,     . 


Page. 
245 
245 
246 
253 
-.2i6_ 
50 
251, 252 
253 
253 
256 
215 
319 


228 

174 

174 

174 

12 

224,  226 

225,  226 
226 

138,  246 

53,  222 

53 

53,  222 

132 

53 

53 

233 

227 

227 

285 

222,  223 

222 

222,  225 
224 
179 
224 

223,  225 
224 
224 
225 
226 
227 
226 


362 


INDEX. 


Firecrackers,  penalty  for  improper  use  of,        ...        . 

exploding  without  mayor's  permission, 
Fire  Department,  council  may  organize  and  regulate, 

provide  for  election  of  officers  of, 
prescribe  duties  of  officers  of,  . 

under  control  of  fire  commissioners,       .... 

commissioners  responsible  for  order  and  discipline  of,    . 

care  of  property  of, 

of  whom  and  what  to  consist,  ..... 

appointment  of  members  of,    . 

vacancies  in,  how  filled, 

tenure  of  office  of  members  of, 

salaries  of  members  of,  and  how  paid, 

location  of  companies,  engines,  etc., 

uniform,  rules  and  records  of, 

penalty  for  unauthorized  wearing  of  uniform  of,     . 

rolls  of  the  companies,  how  kept, 

apparatus,  and  outfit  of  companies,  etc., 

property  and  apparatus  of,  how  bought,  sold  and  exchanged, 

repairs,  etc.,  to  apparatus  of,  how  made, 

penalty  for  injuring  apparatus  of,    . 
obstructing  firemen, 

powers  of  chief  engineer, 

assistant  engineers, 

powers  of  chief  and  assistants  at  fires, 

designation  of  assistant  engineers, 

returns  and  annual  report  of  chief  engineer, 

penalties  under  ordinances  relating  to,  how  recovered, 

hydrants,  under  control  of, 

Fire  Districts,  council  may  establish,       .... 
Fire  Escapes,  where  required, 

penalty  for  not  providing, 

Fire  Marshal,  when  and  how  appointed,  and  term  of  office, 

salary  of, 

to  receive  no  fees,    ....... 

duties  and  powers  of, 

to  examine  buildings  as  to  fire  escapes,  . 

to  give  certificates  as  to  fire  escapes, 

may  order  scuttles,  when  and  how, 

combustible  materials  removed, 

may  enter  buildings,  etc.,  when,       .... 

shall  attend  fires, 

shall  inquire  into  cause  of  incendiary  fires, 

to  approve  chests  for  storage  of  gunpowder,    . 

may  seize  gunpowder  unlawfully  kept  or  transported, 

penalty  for  rescuing  gunpowder  seized  by, 

power  of,  to  enter  premises  where  gunpowder  is  kept, 


222 


224,  226, 


224, 


151, 


Page. 

139 

246 

12 

12 

12 

226 

224 

224 

223 

222 

225 

222 

223,  226 
224 

223,  225 
226 
225 
223 
226 
225 
226 
226 
.225 
225 

227, 228 
227 
225 

128, 228 

179, 227 

98 

151 

151 

147,  228 
223 
231 

228-231 
151 
151 
229 
229 
229 
231 
231 
238 

239,  240 
240 
240 


224 


INDEX. 


Fire  Marshal,  power  of,  over  gunpowder  in  case  of  fires, 

inquest  by,  how  conducted, 

expense  of  examination  by,  how  paid, 

fees  of  witnesses  before, 

orders  of,  how  given, 

to  be  obeyed,  . 

penalty  for  disobedience, 

to  keep  record  book  of  complaints,  examinations,  etc. 

to  make  annual  report  to  council,    .... 
Firemen  (see  fire  department). 
Fires,  council  may  regulate  construction  and  use  of  building,  to  prevent 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor, 

duty  of  engineer  and  assistants  to  attend, 

fire  marshal  to  attend, 

police  to  attend, 

powers  of  chief  engineer  and  assistants  at, 

travel  in  highway  may  be  stopped  during, 

when  and  how  building  may  be  demolished  at, 

penalty  for  giving  false  alarm, 

incendiary,  to  be  investigated  by  fire  marshal, 

powers  of  fire  marshal  at, 

Fire-wood  (see  inspector  of  fire-wood). 

Fire-works,  council  may  regulate, 

exploding,  without  mayor's  permission,  a  nuisance, 
Fisli,  dressing,  when  and  where,  a  nuisance,     .... 

putrid,  not  to  be  thrown  or  left  in  or  on  bank  of  Park  river, 

catching,  in  reservoirs,  forbidden,   ..... 

Flagman,  at  railroad  crossings, 

Food,  adulteration  of,  how  detected  and  prohibited. 
Foreclosure,  jurisdiction  of  city  court  in,  .... 

of  liens  for  benefits, 

unpaid  taxes,  .         .         .         . 

water  rents, 

Foreman,  in  fire  department,  appointment  and  tenure  of  office  of, 

salary  of, 

Forfeitures  (see  penalties). 

Forms,  for  complaint  for  violation  of  charter  and  ordinances, 

for  action  of  debt  to  recover  fines  and  penalties,     . 

for  complaint  for  violation  of  private  act,  ordinances  or  by-law, 

for  tax  warrant, 

for  cards  for  public  carriages  and  wagons, 

for  certificate  of  death, 

Fraud,  jurisdiction  of  police  court  for  obtaining  goods  by. 
Freedom  of  City,  council  may  confer,  on  non-residents. 
Furnaces,  in  buildings,  how  regulated,      .... 


14 


363 

Page. 
240 
147 
231 
147 
229 
2Slr 
230,  231 
231 
232 

148 
128, 148 
224 
231 
268 
226, 227 
227 
227 
228 
231 
240 

10 

139,  246 

253 

256 

319 

119 

156 

17,59 

279,  280 

172 

89,  261 

222 

223 

67 

68 

69 

172 

294,  295 

300 

61 

13 

228,  230 


364 


INDEX. 


Gambling,  council  may  enact  ordinances  to  suppress, 

houses,  to  be  reported  by  police, 

Gardens,  council  may  punish  trespasses  in  public,    . 

violation  of  ordinances  de  trespasses  in  public,  a  misdemeanor, 

trespasses  in  public,  how  punished,          .... 
Gas,  standard  measure  of  illuminating, 

inspection  of, 

city  may  purchase  apparatus  for  inspection  of, 

deduction  in  price  of,  for  quality  below  standard, 
Gas  Company  (see  Hartford  City  Gas  Light  Company). 

Gas  House,  without  license,  prohibited, 

Gas  Meters,  inspection  of, 

city  may  purchase  apparatus  for  inspection  of, 

when  to  be  sealed, 

Gates  at  railroad  crossings, 

Geese,  impounding  of,  regulated, 

General  Assembly,  power  of,  to  amend  charter, 

notice  of  petitions  to,  for  amendment  of  city  charter, 
Girls,  commitment  of,  to  Industrial  School,      .... 
Goats,  council  may  prevent  running  at  large  of,        .         .         . 

violation  of  ordinances  de  running  at  large  of,  a  misdemeanor, 

penalty  for  pasturing,  in  highway,  . 

driving,  in  harness,  through  highway  forbidden, 

impounding  of,  regulated,        ...... 

Government  of  city,  vested  in  council,      ... 
Grade,  damages  and  benefits  by  change  of,  in  highway,  . 

of  highway,  how  changed,       .         .         . '       . 

(See  public  works). 
Grand  Juror,  may  make  complaint  to  police  court, 

powers  of,  taken  away, 

Grants  (see  deeds). 

Grass,  injuring,  in  public  places,  a  nuisance,     .... 

Guano,  keeping,  without  license,  prohibited. 

Guardian,  when  liable  for  acts  of  minor,  .... 

Gunpowder,  council  may  regulate  transportation  and  storage  of, 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor,      .         . 

penalty  for  illegal  sale  and  transportation  of, 

penalty  for  violation  of  ordinances  de,     . 

vessels  laden  with,  where  to  anchor,        .... 

where  vessels  may  load  with, 

regulation  for  loading,  in  vessels,  etc.,      .... 

how  transported  through  city, 

license  to  keep,        ........ 

regulations  concerning  sale  of,         ....         . 

licenses  for  selling,  how  recorded  and  altered, 

to  embrace  regulation  de  toy  pistols,  etc, 
•  on  sale,  how  stored, 


11, 


INDEX. 


365 


Gunpowder,  to  be  sold  only  by  daylight, 

what  quantity  may  be  kept,     .         .         .         . 

seizure  of,  when  unlawfully  kept  or  transported,     . 

penalty  for  rescue  of,  after  seizure,  .... 

power  of  fire  marshal  to  enter  premises  where  kept, 
over,  in  cases  of  fire,     . 

liability  of  keeper  of,  for  injury  by  explosion  of, 
(t utters,  council  may  order  and  construct,  . 

assess  expense  of,    . 

regulations  for  assessments  for,        .... 

sale  of  lands  for  assessments  for,     .... 

when  street  commissioners  may  make  and  repair,  . 

cost  of  construction  and  repair  of,  a  lien, 

lien  for,  how  recorded  and  foreclosed, 

laying,  without  license,  forbidden,  .... 

penalty  for  injury  to,        .....         . 


99, 


Page. 

238 

238 

239 

240 

240 

240- 

240 

97 

98 

■]00,271 

99, 279 

279 

280 

279,  280 

246 

133 


Hacks  (see  public  carriages). 

Hackmen,  council  may  regulate  charges  of,       . 

violation  of  ordinances  de  charges  of,  a  misdemeanor, 

how  punished, 

charges  of, 

(See  public  carriages.) 
Halls,  to  have  safe  entrances  and  exits,     .... 

council  may  close  unsafe, 

(See  buildings.) 
Hand-cart,  drawing,  on  sidewalk  prohibited,    . 
Hand- sled,  drawing,  on  sidewalk  prohibited,    . 
Hartford  Bridge,  power  to  purchase,  and  manner  of  purchase, 

bonds  for  purchase  of,  authorized,   ....     * 

liability  for,  after  purchase, 

management  of,  after  purchase, 
Hartford  Bridge  Bonds,  authorized,        .... 
Hartford  City  Gas  Light  Company,  charter  of, 

powers  of,  in  streets, 

streets  to  be  uninjured  by, 

penalty  for  injury  to  property  of,     . 
Hartford  Electric  Light  Company,  powers  of,  in  streets, 

consent  of  council  for  use  of  streets  by, 

authority  of  street  commissioners  over  poles,  wires,  etc 
Hartford  Home,  city  may  establish, 

management  of,        ...         . 

taxation  for  support  of,    . 

location  of, 

residents  at,  not  to  gain  a  settlement, 

board  of  trustees  of,  how  appointed  and  powers 

duties  of  trustees  of, 


,  of. 


12 

15, 297 

297 

292 

148, 150 
148, 150 

247 

247 

93 

93 

94 

94 

93 

181 

181 

182 

182 

193-195 

194, 195 

194, 195 

187 

188 

188 

188 

188 

188 

188 


366 


INDEX. 


Hartford  Home,  police  court  may  commit  children  to, 

power  of  trustees  of,  over  children,  .... 

trustees  of,  may  apprentice  children,        .... 

donations  and  bequests  to, 

alliances  and  auxiliary  trustees, 

police  commissioners  may  annul  apprenticeship  to, 
council  may  make  ordinances  regulating, 

Hartford  Hospital,  charter  of, 

Hartford  and  New  York  Steamboat  Company,  payment  to  city  by 

of  tolls,  . 
Hartford  Steam  Company,  powers  of,  in  streets, 

consent  of  council  for  use  of  streets  by,  required,    . 
authority  of  council  over  work,  etc.,  of,  . 
liability  of,  for  injury  to  streets,  etc.,         .... 
Hartford  and  Wetliersfleld  Horse  Railway  Company,  charter  of, 
consent  of  city  to  construction  of  lines  of,  required, 
steam  not  to  be  used  as  motive  power  by, 

fares  of, 

various  votes  and  resolutions  concerning, 
street  board  to  furnish  stone  for,     . 
resolution  authorizing  Main  street  line,  . 

Asylum  street  and  Farmington  avenue 
Eetreat  avenue  and  LaFayette  street 
Albany  avenue  line,     . 
conditions  under  which  certain  lines  laid, 
duty  of,  as  to  repair  of  streets,         .... 
regulation  de  turnout  on  Asylum  street,  near  depot 
permission  for  turnouts  required,    .... 
(See  horse  railroads.) 
Hay,  pressed,  sold  in  city  to  be  weighed  by  inspector, 

inspector  to  pay  for  deficiency  in  weight, 
fees  for  weighing,       .... 
inspector  may  make  rules  as  to  baling, 
penalty  for  selling  unless  so  baled,    . 

without  certificate  of 
Health,  council  may  enact  ordinances  de  nuisances  injurious  to, 
violation  of  ordinance^  de,  a  misdemeanor, 
council  may  adopt  sanitary  measures, 
nuisances,  injurious  to,  specified,     . 
Health  Committee,  when  and  how  appointed 
salary  of  chairman  of,     . 

assistant  chairman  of, 

duties  of, 

to  have  powers  of  town  boards  of  health 
powers  of,  in  city,    .... 

as  quarantine  oflScers, 
may  forbid  communication  between  placeS; 


in 


lines. 


164 


etc 


159 


189 
190 
190 
191 
191 
192 
192 

182-184 
lieu 

56 
192 
193 
193 
193 

184-187 

185, 186 

163, 185 
186 

307-314 
314 

307, 308 
lines,  308-312 
312 
313 

308-314 
186,  310,  311 
312 

310, 313 

210 
210 
210 
210 
210 
210 
9 
15 
156 

251-257 
251 
284 
284 

251,  252 

158 

, 162,  251-254 

159-162 
162 


jight. 


INDEX. 


367 


Page. 
Health  Committee,  orders  of,  how  made  and  given,  252,255 

how  enforced, 162,  255, 256 

penalty  for  disobedience  of,        .         .  252, 255, 256 

may  confine  persons,        .  .    ' 162 

may  make  rules  de  vaccination, Jj62_ 

licenses  from,  required  in  various  matters,  253, 254 

may  require  drainage  of  stagnant  water, 255 

abatement  of  nuisances  by,  and  collection  of  expense,   .         .  255,  256 

Health  Officers,  council  may  provide  for  election  of,        ...         .  13 

prescribe  duties  of, 13 

(See  health  committee.) 
Hides,  inspection  of,  ..... 

license  required  for  tanning  or  storage  of. 
Highway  Book,  what  it  shall  contain, 

by  whom  kept, 

Highway  Department, 

(See  highways.) 
Highways,  council  may  make  ordinances  to  lay  out,  establish,  etc.,  . 

to  provide  building  lines  along, 
to  build  drains  and  sewers  in, 
to  light,  purify,  and  keep  open, 
to  keep  free  for  travel, 
to    regulate    fireworks,    shows 

parades,  etc.,  in, 
to  regulate  speed    of  animals 

and  vehicles  in, 
to  prevent  animals  running  at 

large  in 
to  preserve  trees  and  ornaments 

in,  .... 

to  regulate  excavations  in, 
to  prohibit  location  of  anything 

on  or  under 
to  prohibit  removals  of  build 

ings  through, 
to  keep  quiet  on  Lord's  Day, 
to  regulate  width  of, 
to  provide  that  assessments  for 
may  be  a  lien, 
violations  of  ordinances  de  obstructions  in,  a  misdemeanor,    . 
ordinances  de  sidewalks,  how  enforced,  . 
council  may  alter  lines  and  change  location  of, 
build,  alter  and  repair, 
discontinue, 

provide  building  lines  along, 
build  drains  and  sewers  in, 
order  and  construct  sidewalks,  crosswalks  and  gutters  in, 


156 
253 
279 
279 
271  et  seq. 

9 

9 

9 

10 

10 


11 

11 

11 

11 
11 

11 

11 
11 
12 

14 
15, 296 
134 
97 
98 
97 
97 
97 
97 


368 


INDEX. 


110, 


116 
116 


Page. 

Highways,  council  may  order,  construct  and  alter  sewers  in,    .  97 

council  may  prevent  animals  running  at  large  in,     ....  11,134 

assess  expense  of  constructing  or  altering,  99 

four-fold  taxation  in  ca^  of  certain  encroachments  upon,  15 

water  commissioners  may  use  soil  under, 29 

duties  of  water  commissioners  de,  ......  29 

powers  and  duties  of  street  commissioners  de,  ....  50 

superintendent  of  streets  de,  ...  49 

city  may  make  lines  on  city  map  binding, 47 

power  of  city  to  lay  out,  in  northern  extension,  limited,  42 

vote  laying  out  or  altering,  to  be  referred  to  street  commissioners,  .  50,  271 
how  laid  out,  constructed  and  changed,  ....       271  et  seq. 

layout  of,  shall  establish  building  line, 272 

regulations  de  assessments,  sale  of  lands  for,  etc.,     .  99, 100,  271,  et  seq. 

lands  not  abutting,  may  be  assessed  for,  .         .         .         .         .        109 

cost  of,  to  be  ascertained  and  assessed  before  construction,  110, 276 

deduction  from  assessments  for,  when  made,  .         .  .110,  277,  278 

benefits  for,  a  lien, 110, 278 

when  lien  attaches  and  how  continued, 

damages,  where,  discontinued  before  being  worked, 

damages  and  benefits  by  change  of  grade  of,  . 

(See  public  works.) 

streams  may  be  diverted  in  construction  of,     . 

drainage  of,  into  or  through  private  lands, 

layout,  discontinuance  or  change  of,  to  be  recorded, 

surveys  of,  to  be  recorded, 

railroads  not  to  cross,  at  grade,         .... 

how  raised  or  lowered  at  railroad  crossings,     . 

maintainance  of,  at  railroad  crossings,     . 

authority  for  railroads  to  cross,  at  grade,  how  given, 

new,  must  be  built  over  or  under  railroad, 

cost  of  construction  and  repair  where  over  or  under  railroad, 

alteration  of,  at  grade  crossings,       .... 

expense  of  alteration  of  crossings,  how  borne, 

new,  forbidden  within  one  hundred  yards  of  track, 

use  of  railroad  by  trains  near  covered  bridge, 

gates,  signals  and  flagmen  at  crossings,     . 

discontinuance  of  switching  across,  how  compelled, 

whistling  at  crossings, 
railings  along  roads  and  bridges,      .... 
damages  for  injury  from  defective, 

notice  of  injury  upon, 

liability  over,  by  persons  placing  obstructions  in,    . 
excavation,  etc.,  in,  without  notice,  forbidden, 
supervision  of  street  board  over  excavations  in, 
penalty  for  injury  to  lamps  and  public  property  in, 
motive  power  in,  how  regulated,      .... 


101, 


101 
105 
2^9 
279 
105 
105 
105 
106 
106 
106 

106. 107 

100. 108 
108 
118 
119 
120 
121 
117 
117 
117 
117 
122 
122 
132 
163 


INDEX. 


369 


Page. 
163, 185 
164, 185 


Highways,  steam  not  to  be  used  as  motive  power  on  horse  railroads 

form  and  position  of  horse  railroad  rails,  how  regulated, 

horse  railroads,  to  grade  and  repair  track  and  two  feet  each 

side, 164,186,310,311 

liable  for  what  defects, 

when  city  may  repair  way, 

when  horse  railroad  may  not  remove  snow  from,    . 

snow  removed  by  horse  railroad  not  to  be  placed  on  sidewalk  or 
gutter, 

salt,  brine,  etc.,  not  to  be  used  by  horse  railroads  on, 

use  of  horse  railroad  tracks  by  others,  foii)idden,    . 

rights  and  duties  of  Gas  Company  in, 

Horse  Kailroad  Company  in,    . 
Steam  Company  in,  . 

Electric  Light  Company  in,     . 

power  of  fire  department  to  stop  travel  in, 

police  and  executive  officers  authorized  to  keep,  open 

duty  of  police  to  remove  obstructions  in, 

nuisances  relating  to,  defined  and  classified,    . 

various  acts  upon,  nuisances,  .... 

permitting  wash,  etc.,  to  run  into,  a  nuisance, 

certain  nuisances  de,  made  misdemeanors, 

conditions  attending  licenses  to  do  certain  acts  upon, 

pasturing  animals  in,  forbidden, 

running  at  large  of  animals  in,  forbidden, 

snow  and  ice,  how  cleared  from  sidewalks, 

icy  sidewalks,  how  cared  for, 

turnpikes,  under  control  of  council, 

gutters  and  sidewalks,  how  made  and  repaired  by  street 

cost  of  construction  and  repairs  of  same,  a  lien, 

liens  for  same,  how  recorded  and  foreclosed,  . 

what  contracts  street  board  may  make  de,        .    . 

regulations  de  width  of,    . 

none  to  be  opened  except  by  permission  of  council. 
Hook  and  Ladder  Company,  members  and  outfit  of, 

salary  of  members  of, 

location  of,       ...•••         • 
Horse  Railroads,  not  to  use  steam  as  motive  power, 

motive  power  of,  regulated  by  mayor  and  council, 

form  and  manner  of  laying  rails  subject  to  direction  of  council, 

to  grade  and  repair  their  ways  and  two  feet  on  each  side, 

when  liable  for  defect  in  streets, 

repairs  of  streets  by,  how  enforced  by  city, 

when  may  not  remove  snow  from  tracks, 

snow  removed  by,  not  to  be  placed  on  sidewalk  or  gutter 

salt,  brine,  etc.,  not  to  be  used  in  highway, 

penalty  for  obstructing  tracks  of, 


117, 164 
~T6r 

164,  310 

164 

165. 310 
165 

181, 182 

185-187 

192, 193 

194, 195 

227 

244 

267 

244-247 

253 

254 

15,  296 

250 

281,  282 

246, 282 

248 

249 

98,  279 

279 

280 

280 

280 

281 

281 

223 

223 

224 

163, 185 

163 

164, 185 

164,186,310,311 

117, 164 

164. 311 
164,310 

164 

165,  310 
165 


board 


370 


INDEX. 


Horse  Railroads,  use  of  tracks  of,  by  others  forbidden, 

assessments  upon,  may  be  abated,  . 

(See  Hartford  and  Wethersfield  Horse  Eailway  Company 
Horses,  racing,  in  streets,  a  nuisance,        .... 

driving  faster  than  six  miles  an  hour,  a  nuisance,  . 

leaving  unhitched,  a  nuisance,        .... 

allowing  to  stand  on  crosswalk,  a  nuisance, 

blocking  up  streets  with,  a  nuisance, 

pasturing  or  running  at  large  of,  in  streets,  prohibited, 

impounding  of,  regulated, 

Hose  Company,  how  composed  and  outfit  of,    . 

salary  of  members  of,      .         .         .         . 

location  of, 

Hosemen,  appointment  and  tenure  of  office  of, 

salary  of, 

Houses  of  lU  Fame,  council  may  suppress, 

to  be  reported  by  police, 

when  police  forbidden  to  enter,       .... 
Hydrants,  water  commissioners  may  establish, 

by  whom  controlled, 

location  of  private,  subject  to  control  of  water  board, 

opening  public,  when  forbidden  and  how  punished, 

Ice  (see  snow  and  ice). 

lUegal  Voting,  council  may  prevent,       .... 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor, 

punishment  for, 

lU  Fame  (see  houses  of  ill  fame). 

Immorality,  council  may  make  ordinances  to  prevent, 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor. 
Impounding  of  animals,  council  may  regulate, 

regulations  for, 

Imprisonment,  limit  of  police  court  jurisdiction. 

Improvements  (see  public  works). 

Indebtedness  (see  debt). 

Industrial  Scliool  (see  Connecticut  Industrial  School). 

Inebriate  Asylums,  duty  of  police  to  assist  oflacers  of, 

Inhuman  Sports,  council  may  pass  ordinances  restraining, 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor,     . 
Injunction,  may  be  granted  by  city  court. 
Injuries,  damages  for,  upon  highway,        .... 

to  water  works,  forbidden, 

Inquest,  power  of  coroner  to  summon  jurors  for, 

council  may  prescribe  duties  and  compensation  of  jurors 

powers  of  coroner  repealed,     .... 

by  fire  marshal, 


281 


Pagk. 
165 
165 


245 
245 
246 
246 
246 

282,  297 
282 
223 
223 
224 
222 
223 
11 
267 
268 
27 

179,  227 

318 

"319 


13 
15 

201 


^ 


11 

15 

11 

282,  283 

15,  22,  30,  61  148, 174 


143 
11 

128 

59 

117,164 

319 
14 
14 
57 

147 


INDEX. 


371 


Page. 

Inspection  of  buildings,  council  may  make  ordinances  for,      ...  148 

and  when  shall  require,  .         .         .  149 

proceedings  in, 149 

appeals  from  order  after,              .         .         .         .  150 

Orders  de,  how  enforced,     .         .         .         .        ^.    150 

concerning  fire  escapes, 151 

of  burning  fluids,  how  provided  for, 155 

of  dams  and  reservoirs,  .  153-155 

of  food, 156 

of  gas  and  gas  meters,  by  whom  and  how  made,     ....  152 

fees  for  and  by  whom  paid,  ....  152 

city  may  purchase  apparatus  for,                   .  153 

of  leather,  hides  and  skins,  council  may  regulate,  ....  156 

Inspector  of  buildings,  council  may  provide  for, 149 

of  fire-wood,  appointment,  bond  and  duty  of,          ....  209 

oath  of, 233 

may  appoint  deputies, 210 

to  pay  for  deficiency  in  measure,        ....  209 

penalty  for  selling  unmeasured  wood,                           .  209 

to  weigh  all  pressed  hay, 210 

to  pay  for  deficiency  in  weight  of  hay,                          .  210 

may  make  rules  as  to  binding  hay,      ....  210 

to  keep  tubs  for  measuring  coal,          .         .         .         .  211 

fees  of,  for  measuring  fire-wood,                   .         .         .  209 

weighing  hay, 210 

*  of  milk,  sealer  of  weights  and  measures  to  be,                                   .  213 

powers  and  duties  of, 213, 214 

of  produce,  council  may  provide  for, 13 

prescribe  duties  of, 13 

Inspector  General  of  Gas  and  Gas  Meters,  appointment  and  term  of 

ofiice  of,  .         .         .         .  152 

may  appoint  deputies, 152 

duties  of, 152 

fees  of,  and  by  whom  paid, 152 

Intemperance,  powers  of  magistrates  under  act  for  suppression  of,          .  22 

Intoxicating-  Liquors,  sale  of,  on  election  day,  prohibited,       ...  138 

Jail,  persons  sentenced,  how  conveyed  to, 26 

duty  of  keeper  of,  de  prisoners  sentenced  by  police  court,                .  26,  72 

keeper  of,  to  receive  fines  paid  after  commitment,           .  -     .         .  26 

to  pay  to  city  treasurer  fines  collected,    ....  26 

Joint  Conventions  of  council,  when  held  for  choice  of  officers,                 .  206 

to  fill  vacancies,                          .  206 

mayor,  president  of, 16 

may  give  casting  vote  in,        .         .  16 

to  choose  judges  of  city  court,    ...  18 

city  attorney,       ....  18 


372 


INDEX. 


18 


Joint  Conventions  of  council,  to  choose  prosecuting  attorney, 

city  clerk,  clerk  of, 
clerk  pro  tempore,  how  chosen, 
Journal  of  boards  of  common  council,  how  kept,  published,  and  dis 

tributed, 

official,  of  court  of  common  council, 
Judges  of  City  Court,  how  chosen  and  term  of  office 
office  of  associate  abolished,    .         .         .  »      . 
absence  or  disqualification  of,  provided  for, 

vacancies,  how  filled, 

oath  of, 

salary  of, 

when  may  try  issues  of  fact,    .... 

jurisdiction  of,  in  charges  of  misconduct  against  city  officials 

may  act  as  judges  of  court  of  common  pleas,   . 

hold  special  sessions  of  court  of  common  pleas, 
compensation  of,  as  judges  of  court  of  common  pleas, 
shall  appoint  a  clerk,       .         .         .         . 
(See  city  court.) 
Judge  of  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  appeals  from  assessments  and 
praisals  to  be  taken  to,  .... 

powers  of,  on  appeals, 

may  appoint  committee  on  appeals, 
decision  of,  on  appeals,  how  revised. 
Judge  of  Police  Court,  how  chosen  and  term  of  office, 
associate,  how  chosen  and  term  of  office, 

power,  duty,  and  compensation  of,  . 
substitute,  how  designated,      .... 

.  oath  of, 

salary  of,  .  

may  appoint  clerk, 

special  prosecuting  attorney, 
act  as  judge  of  court  of  common  pleas,  . 
compensation  of,  as  judge  of  court  of  common  pleas, 
may  suspend  policeman,  when*  and  how, 
(See  police  court.) 
Judge  of  Supreme  Court,  may  appoint  commissioners  to  appraise  land 

taken  for  water  purposes 
duty  of,  on  report  of  commissioners 
Judgment,  how  city  court  may  execute, 
of  city  court,  appeal  from, 
how  police  court  may  execute, 
of  police  court,  appeal  from, 
police  court  may  suspend,  when, 
(See  city  court.)     (See  police  court.) 
Jurisdiction  of  city  on  Connecticut  river, 
of  city  court  (see  city  court), 
of  police  court  (see  police  court). 


35 


Page. 

64 

205 

205 

207 

208 

,  206 

61 

19,69 

19 

234 

284 

21 

288 

62,  325 

62 

64 

18 


ap 

111,113 

112,113,115 

112 

114,115 

21,  35,  62 

35,63 

63 

63 

234 

285 

23 

64 

325 

64 

263 


28 
28 
17 
15,  17,  58,  70,  71 
22 
22,  58,  71,  140,  174 
24 


INDEX. 


373 


Jurors  of  City  Court,  number  of, 

when  and  how  chosen, 

council  may  provide  for  drawing  and  summoning, 
prescribe  oath  of,  .... 

provide  penalties  for  refusal  to  serve, 

regulations  de  drawing,  summoning  and  attendance  of, 

oath  of, 

fees  of, 

penalty  for  refusal  to  serve, 

Jury  of  Inquest  (see  inquest). 

of  six  may  try  cases  in  city  court,    .... 
Justice  of  tlie  Peace,  appeals  from,  in  civil  actions, 

how  may  be  designated  to  act  as  police  judge, 

powers  of,  when  acting  as  police  judge,  . 
Juveniles,  police  court  may  commit,  to  reform  school,  etc., 


Kei'oseue,  manufacturing  or  refining,  without  license,  forbidden, 

Kiln,  maintaining,  without  a  license,  forbidden, 

Kites,  flying,  in  streets,  forbidden, 


i 


2, 


Laddermen,  salary  of, 

Lamps,  council  may  provide  for,  in  streets, 

power  of  street  board  to  erect,         .... 

duty  of  street  board  to  provide  for  lighting  and  repair  of, 

injury  to,  or  defacing  posts  forbidden, 

(See  light.) 
Land,  council  may  make  ordinances  de  drainage  of, 

raise  or  drain, 

assess  expense  of  drainage  of,  as  benefits, 

how  drained  and  raised,  „        .         .         .         . 

taxation  of  certain, 

council  may  prescribe  manner  of  taking,  for  public  use, 

damages  for,  when  taken,  must  be  agreed  upon  or  appraised 

how  taken  for  public  use, 

Landings  on  Connecticut  river  under  charge  of  port  warden, 

dockage  of  vessels  at. 

Leases,  by  city,  how  executed, 

Leather,  council  may  provide  for  inspection  of, 
Libel  of  gunpowder  unlawfully  kept  or  transported, 
brary,  appropriation  for  free  public,     .... 

council  may  maintain  public  library  and  reading  room 

management  of  free  public,     ..... 
Licenses,  council  may  regulate,  for  public  carriages,  etc., 

I         for  hacks  and  express  wagons,        .... 
for  non-resident  auctioneer,     ..... 
for  public  amusements,    .                  .      '   . 
fee  for,  how  recoverable, 


Page. 
21 

21,216 

21 

21 

12 

216- 

234 

286 

217 


21 
19,59 
63 
63 
26, 141-145 

253 
253 

247 


224 

10 

50 

50 

132, 245 

9 

97 
99 
271  et  seq. 
39-42,  166, 167 
IL 
.  99,110 
271  et  seq. 
214 
214 
221 
156 
239 
.  38,123 
123 
123-126 
12 
289,  290 
127 
128,  235 
235 


374 


INDEX. 


Licenses^  penalty  for  giving  exhibitions  without, 
for  peddlers  and  street  venders, 
for  sale  and  keeping  gunpowder, 

how  recorded  and  altered,    . 
to  embrace  regulations  de  toy  pis 
tols,  etc. 
for  removal  of  buildings  through  streets, 
for  deposit  of  building  materials  in  streets, 
for  opening  vaults  or  cellarways  in  streets, 
for  excavating  in  streets, 
for  trading  in  streets, 
for  laying  sidewalks  or  gutters, 
for  placing  posts,  etc.,  in  streets, 
for  setting  trees  in  lines  of  walk, 
for  driving  drove  of  animals  through  streets, 
for  building  bonfires,  exploding  fireworks,  etc 
for  carrying  on  certain  kinds  of  business, 
from  health  committee  in  various  matters, 
to  do  certain  acts  in  highways,  granted  with  conditions, 
persons  acting  under  certain,  how  liable  to  city  and  third  parties. 
Liens,  council  may  declare  benefits  for  public  works, 

created  for  assessments,  ....        104,110,111,116 

for  assessments,  on  estates  of  deceased  persons, 

when  commence,  how  continued 
and  foreclosed,   .         .         .  14,104,110,111, 

for  construction  of  sidewalks  and  gutters, 

how  recorded  and  fore 
closed, 
for  water  rents,  council  may  prescribe  mode  of  filing,  etc. 

created,  

how  continued  and  foreclosed 
for  unpaid  taxes,  how  continued  and  discharged,    . 

how  foreclosed, 

joinders  of  parties  plaintiff"  in  foreclosure  of, 
Lieutenant  of  Police  (see  police,  lieutenant  of). 

Light,  council  may  provide  for,  in  streets, 

power  of  street  commissioners  to  contract  for, 

penalty  for  unlawfully  extinguishing, 

(See  lamps.) 
Limits  (see  boundaries). 
Liquors  (see  intoxicating  liquors). 

Loan,  in  aid  of  railroads  forbidden,  .... 

Lord's  Day,  council  may  keep  city  quiet  and  orderly  on, 
driving  animals  through  streets  on,  forbidden, 
no  appeal  for  conviction  of  violating. 
Lottery  Dealing,  council  may  pass  ordinances  to  prevent, 


I 

Paob. 
235 
133 
237 

238 

241 
244 
244 
244 
245 
245 
246 
246 
246 
246 
246 
253 

253,  254 

250 

250 

14 

278,  279 
109 

278,  279 
280 

280 

29 

89,  261 

89,  261 

m 

17j 

i7i 
li 

2i 
281 


ij 
24 

22 
134 


INDEX. 


375 


LoTF  Lands,  council  may  pass  ordinances  de  drainage  of, 
raise  and  drain, 
assess  expense  of  raising  or  draining 
how  raised  and  drained, 

Magistrate  may  issue  process  in  city,  when. 
Majority  of  council  required  in  vote  on  resolutions, 

of  entire  court  required  to  elect  in  joint  convention, 
Malicious  violation  of  certain  ordinances,  a  misdemeanor, 

certain  acts,  when  to  be  deemed,     . 
Manure,  when  keeping  of,  a  nuisance. 
Map  of  city,  council  may  make  lines  on  same,  binding. 
Margins,  council  may  prohibit  sales  of  stocks,  goods,  etc. 
Markets,  council  may  pass  ordinances  regulating. 
Marriages,  council  may  regulate  registration  of. 
Marshal  (see  city  marshal). 
Master,  when  liable  for  acts  of  minor. 
Materials,  council  may  regulate  use  of,  in  buildings, 

what,  to  be  used  in  construction  of  buildings, 

for  building  deposited  in  street,  a  nuisance,     . 

may  be  deposited  in  street  by  license. 
Mayor,  when  and  how  chosen, 

term  of  oflBce  of, 

oath  of,    . 

salary  of,  ... 

chief  executive  officer,    . 

conservator  of  the  peace, 

(presiding  officer  of  board  of  aldermen,  . 
joint  conventions, 
board  of  canvassers, 
ex-offido,  president  board  of  police  commissioners, 
director  of  Hartford  Hospital, 
not  to  hold  certain  offices,        .... 
messages  and  recommendations  of, 
to  approve  votes,  resolutions,  etc.,  . 

veto  by, 

reconsideration  of  council  «fter  veto  by, 

power  of,  to  execute  ordinances, 

powers  of,  as  executive,  and  conservator  of  the  peace, 

to  suppress  riots  and  tumults, 
council  may  confer  upon,  power  to  suppress  vice,  etc., 

authorize,  to  administer  oaths  in  courts, 
may  administer  oaths  within  city,  . 
may  give  casting  vote  in  board  of  aldermen, 
joint  convention, 
police  board,  when, 
designate  justices  to  hold  city  court. 


Page. 
9 
97 
as  benefits,        99 

271  et  seq. 

8 

18 

15 

247 

253, 255 

47 

134 

9 

158 

228 

12,98,149 

230 

244 

244 

3,201 

4 

233 

284 

4,268 

4,268 

16 

16 

203 

262 

183 

132 

134 

8 

8 

8 

4 

4,268 

4,269 

11 

14 

37 

16 

16 

262 

19 


376 


INDEX. 


Mayor  shall  appoint  members  of  several  commissions, 
may  remove  commissioners,  and  how, 

fill  temporary  vacancies  in  street  board,  . 

appoint  policemen  for  Cedar  Hill  cemetery, 

prohibit  coasting  in  highways, 

issue  licenses  to  auctioneers,    . 

revoke  licenses  of  auctioneers, 

with  the  council,  license  exhibitions,  etc., 

appoint  special  constables  for  arrest  of  tramps, 

with  the  aldermen,  appoint  persons  to  prosecute  truants, 
permission  of,  to  be  obtained  for  discharge  of  firearms, 

for  building  bonfires,  etc., 
for  horse  railroads  to  remove  snow, 

to  use  salt,  brine,  etc., 
duties  of,  de  inspection  of  dams  and  reservoirs, 
to  provide  office  for  collector,  . 
power  of,  to  call  city  meeting, 
manner  of  calling  city  meeting, 
power  of,  to  call  council  meeting,    . 
manner  of  calling  council  meeting, 
when,  must  call  city  meeting, 
when,  must  call  council  meeting,     . 
to  designate  polling  places  for  city  elections,  . 
to  appoint  presiding  officers  of  elections,  when, 
to  proclaim  result  of  city  elections, 
how  to  proceed  when  no  election  or  in  case  of  vacancy, 
to  execute  conveyances  of  real  estate, 
to  certify  to  conveyances  of  personal  property, 

to  approve  bonds  of  city  officers, 56, 

may  inspect  records  of  fire  department, 

authorize  demolition  of  building  during  fires, 

suspend  policeman,  when  and  how, 

summon  aid  in  executing  laws,  etc., 

call  out  militia, 

obstructing,  resisting  or  refusing  to  assist,  how  punished, 
when  to  issue  order  expelling  from  office, 
power  of,  to  issue  and  revoke  licenses  to  public  carriages,  etc., 
to  issue  warrant  for  collection  of  assessment, 
for  collection  of  taxes,  . 
against  collector  for  deficiency, 
collector,  accountable  to,          .... 
when  absent,  who  shall  act,     .... 
Meadow  Lands,  certain,  in  South  meadow  exempt  from  taxation, 
North  meadow  exempt  from  taxation, 
Measures,  council  may  pass  ordinances  regulating, 
violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor,     . 
how  inspected  and  sealed, 


INDEX. 


377 


Measures^  fees  for  inspection  and  sealing, 

unlawful,  how  condemned, 

penalty  for  using  unsealed, 

condemned, 
selling  from  short, 

(See  sealer  of  weights  and  measures.) 
Medical  Institutions,  council  may  prevent  illegal  practices  with 

bodies  in, 
Meetings,  annual  city,  when  and  where  held,  . 

special  city,  when  and  how  called, 

what  warnings  of  city,  shall  specify, 

(See  city  meetings  and  elections.) 

council,  how  called,  .         .         .         . 

ward,  when  and  where  held,  .         . 

(See  ward  meetings.) 

Messages  by  mayor, 

Messenger  of  board  of  aldermen,  salary  of, 

of  council  board,  when  and  how  chosen, 
salary  of,      . 

of  city  court,  fees  of,        ...         . 

of  police  court,  salary  of,  ... 

city  clerk  may  employ,    .         .         .         . 
Militia  subject  to  call  of  Mayor, 

penalty  for  member  of,  disobeying  order  of  mayor, 
Milk,  sale  of,  regulated,  .         . 

powers  and  duties  of  inspector  of,   . 
Minor,  when  parent,  master  or  guardian  liable  for  acts  of, 

sale  of  toy  pistols,  etc.,  to,  regulated. 
Misdemeanor,  violation  of  certain  ordinances  a,  15, 128, 134, 

how  prosecuted,  when  for  violation  of  ordinances,        15,  128, 

expenditure  by  officer  in  excess  of  appropriation,  . 

breach  of  official  duty, 

sale  of  adulterated  milk, 

sale  of  veal  of  young  calves, 

Misfeasance,  council  may  provide  for  expulsion  of  officer  for. 

public  agents  receiving  commissions  or  allowances, 

officer  taking  more  than  legal  compensation,  . 

officer  appropriating  property  of  city, 

embezzlement  by  public  officer,       .... 

certain  acts  by  members  of  council  or  city  officers, 

how  punished, 

removal  of  officer  for,  

trial  for,  how  conducted, 

who  may  prefer  charges  of,      ....         . 
Mistake,  clerical,  in  assessment  of  taxes,  how  corrected, 

benefits,  how  corrected  on  appeal 


dead 


Page. 
212 
212 
212 
213 
212- 


14 

3,199 

205 

80 

205 
199 

134 

285 
207 
285 
286 
284 
208 
4,269 


157 
213,  214 
228 
241 
148,  296,  297 
134,  296,  297 
131 
287 
158 
257 
14 
129 
130 
130 
130 
287 
130 
287 
287,  288 
288 
172 
115 


378 


INDEX. 


I 


Moderators,  council  may  enact  ordinances  to  designate, 

how  chosen  and  who  may  be, 75, 

of  Second  ward  to  be  presiding  officer  for  the  city, 

duties  and  powers  of, 6,  7, 75-78 

when  name  of  voter  not  on  list, 

to  preserve  order,  . 

to  reject  ballots, 

to  cause  voter's  name  to  be  checked, 

in  case  of  challenges, 

judges  of  ballots,     .... 

to  declare  result,      .... 

to  certify  result,      .... 

to  preserve  ballots, 

to  deposit  voting  list  with  city  clerk, 

to  erase  name  from  list,  when, 

to  be  sworn  and  may  administer  oaths  to  other  election  officers, 

pay  of, .         . 

Motions  in  Error,  from  city  to  superior  court,  when  taken, 

supreme  court,  when  taken, 

powers  of  city  court  on, 

stay  of  execution  in  cases  of,  • 

proceedings  on, 

may  be  joined  with  motions  for  new  trial 

rules  governing, 

upon  appeals  from  assessments, 

superseded  by  appeals,    .... 
Motions  for  New  Trial,  power  of  recorder  to  grant, 

may  be  joined  with  motions  in  error, 

upon  appeals  from  assessments, 

superseded  by  appeals,     .         . 
Municipal  Indebtedness  (see  bonds),  (see  debt). 
Music,  council  may  regulate,  in  public  places,  . 


Navigation  (see  Connecticut  river). 

Night  Soil,  when  and  how  removed, 

Ninepin  Alley  (see  bowling  saloon). 

Notice  in  cases  of  assessment  and  appraisal,  ordinances  shall  prescribe,   . 

prescribed,   .        .        .      274,  et 

of  injuries  upon  highways, 

of  prohibition  of  coasting  in  highways, 

of  regulations  of  health  committee, 

of  payment  of  taxes, 167, 

of  snow  and  ice  ordinance  by  publication, 

when  sidewalk  encumbered  with  snow  or  ice, 

to  street  commissioners  before  digging  in  streets, 

when  police  to  serve, 

penalty  for  tearing  down  or  defacing, 133, 

unlawful  posting  of,  when  and  how  punished. 


Page. 

13 

200,  201 

75 

200-203 

6,76 

200 

6 

7,76 

6,  7, 76 

77 

77 

77 

78 

7,76 

7 

79 

204 

20 

69 

20,69 

20 

20 

69 

69 

114 

70 

69 

69 

114 

70 


11 


254 

100 
seq. 
117 
118 
159 
168 
249 
250 
122 
268 
326 
247 


INDEX. 


379 


Nuisances,  council  may  pass  ordinances  to  prevent  and  remove, 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  &  misdemeanor,  .15, 128, 

penalty  for,  not  to  exceed  fifty  dollars, 15, 

penalty  for,  by  four-fold  taxation, 

when  to  be  deemed  malicious, 

relating  to  highways,  powers  of  street  board  de, 
defined  and  classified,    . 

penalties  for, 15, 

when  continuance  of,  a  separate  offence, 
to  water  supply,  water  board  may  sue  for,  . 

how  removed,  

powers  of  health  committee  de,       .  .         . 

various  acts  injurious  to  health  declared  to  be, 
maintenance  of  various  kinds  of  business  declared  to  be, 
penalty  for  not  removing,  when  ordered  by  health  committee, 
abatement  of,  by  health  committee,        .... 
placing  rubbish  in  or  on  the  margin  of  Park  river, 

.  Connecticut  river, 
selling  veal  of  young  calves, 

Oath,  council  may  authorize  mayor  to  administer,  in  court, 

prescribe,  for  city  officers,    .... 
city  jurors,      .... 

I                                                      water  board  and  oflBcers, 
mayor  may  administer,  within  city,         .... 
of  city  oflScers,  judges  and  jurors, 
certificate  of,  to  be  lodged  with  city  clerk, 
of  election  officers, 

of  police  officers,     .  

of  witnesses  in  appraisals  and  assessments,     . 
to  claims  against  city,  may  be  required  by  auditor, 
Obligations  of  city  not  impaired  by  charter,     .... 
Obstructions  in  public  places,  council  may  pass  ordinances  to  remove, 

a  nuisance, 


Page. 

9 

134,  296 

134,  248 

15 

247 

-50- 

244-247 

247,  296 

247 

28 

180 

159,  252 

253-255 

253 

255,  256 

256 

256 

215 

257 

14 

12,14 

21 

29 

37 

233,  234 

234 

79 

233, 268 

273 

129 

30 

10 

244-247 


violation  of  ordinances  de,a  misdemeanor,  15,  296 


when  continuance  of,  a  separate  off'ence, 

when  to  be  deemed  malicious, 

powers  of  street  board  concerning, 

police  authorized  to  remove,    . 

duty  of  police  to  remove, 

expense  of  removing,  how  collected, 

limited, 

penalty  for  placing,  limited  to  fifty  dollars 
four-fold  taxation  for, 
liability  of  city  for, 

liability  over  to  city  by  persons  placing, 
of  highway  near  covered  bridge,  by  trains,     .... 


247 
247 

50 
244 
267 
248 
248 
15, 134 

15 
117 
117 
118 


380 


INDEX. 


Pagk. 


Obstructions  of  officers,  council  may  pass  ordinances  to  punish, 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor, 

punishment  for,  ...        4, 

of  firemen,  punishment  for, 

of  police,  punishment  for, 

of  mayor,  punishment  for, 

Offal  (see  filth). 

Office  of  city  clerk,  how  provided, 

of  city  collector,  how  provided, 
of  chief  of  police,  how  provided, 
rent,  when  not  allowed,  .... 
(See  officers.) 
Officers  (see  various  titles). 

what,  chosen  at  annual  city  meeting, 
council  may  provide  for  election  of  certain, 
prescribe  oaths  of, 
duties  of, 
salaries  of,    . 
provide  for  bonds  of,   . 

penalties  for  refusal  to  serve, 
for  expulsion  of,  for  misfeasance, 
for  punishment  for  resistance  of, 
election  of  (see  elections). 

terms  of  office  of  those  chosen  at  annual  elections, 

in  joint  convention, 
city  collector, 
certain,  disqualified  for  certain  positions, 

oaths  of, 

bonds  of  (see  bonds). 

salary  and  compensation  of  (see  fees),  (see  salaries), 
compensation  of,  not  to  be  increased  while  in  office, 
forbidden  to  accept  fees,  rewards,  etc., 

to  take  more  than  legal  compensation, 
to  contract  for  clerk  hire, 
to  do  various  acts,    .... 
expulsion  of,  for  misfeasance, 
penalty  for  taking  commissions, 

more  than  legal  compensation, 
making  false  entries, 
embezzlement,        .... 
expending  in  excess  of  appropriations, 
neglect  to  serve  writ  returnable  to  city  court 
neglect  to  return  writ  to  city  court, 
for  making  false  return  on  writ, 
who  may  serve  process  to  police  court,  . 
resistance  of,  a  misdemeanor,  .... 


226, 


INDEX. 


381 


Page. 

Offset,  benefits  not  to  be,  against  damages, 99 

may  be,  against  damages, 115 

Omnibus  (see  public  carriages). 

Openings  for  air,  council  may  make  ordinances  to  regulate,      ...  9 

establish, 97 

assess  expense  of,  as  benefits,     .         .  ~09" 

in  streets,  without  license,  a  nuisance,     .         .         .         .         .         .         245 

regulations  concerning, 122,245 

Orders  on  city  treasurer,  how  drawn, 217 

how  authorized, 217 

form  and  contents  of, 217 

for  salaries  authorized,       .         .         .     226,  265, 285, 302 

of  fire  marshal,  how  drawn,  etc., 229 

penalty  for  disobedience  of, 231 

of  health  committee,  how  given,  etc., 252, 255, 256 

penalty  for  disobedience  of,  .         .         .  252,  255, 256 

Ordinances,  mayor  empowered  to  execute, 4 

how  passed,  altered  or  repealed, 9 

majority  of  each  board  present  and  absent  required  to  pass,  .  9 

approval  of,  by  mayor, 8 

valid  if  not  disapproved, 8 

time  for  veto  limited, 8 

proceedings  after  veto,     . 8 

I        what,  council  may  pass  (see  common  council), 
how  published, 
when  to  take  eff'ect, 
city  clerk's  certificate,  evidence  of  publication, 
not  valid  if  repugnant  to  law, 
under  old  charter,  how  long  operative,     .     ,   . 

confirmation  of  certain, 

how  revised, 

revision  of  1883,  when  to  take  eff'ect, 
rules  for  construction  of  revision,  . 
council  may  impose  penalties  for  violation  of, 
limitation  of  penalty  for  violation  of, 
penalties  for  violation  of,  how  enforced, 
violation  of  certain,  a  misdemeanor. 


15, 
15. 


135 

135 

15 

15 

31 

54 

135 

303 

304 

148 

134 


14,    134; 

.  15, 
14, 128, 134, 148,  296 
15, 128, 134, 148,  257,  296 


imposing  four-fold  taxation  in  certain  cases,  may  be  passed  by  council,       15 

forms  of  complaint  for  violation  of, 67,  68 

no  appeal  allowed  in  actions  for  penalties  and  forfeitures,       .  15 
appeal  allowed  in  all  prosecutions  for  violation  of  charter  or  ordi- 
nances,            71 

Ornaments  in  public  places,  council  may  make  ordinances  to  protect,  11 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor,  128 
Outhouses  (see  privies). 
Ox  (see  animals). 


382 


INDEX. 


Parades,  council  may  pass  ordinances  to  regulate,    .         .    ^^^^H  11 

Parent,  when  liable  for  acts  of  minor,       .         .         .         .         .         .         .  228 

Parks,  council  may  make  ordinances  to  establish,  etc.,              .         .         .  9 

to  light,  etc., 10 

to  keep  free  from  obstructions,  etc.,  10 

to  prevent  excavations  in,  .  .  11 
to  regulate  fireworks,  parades,  etc.,  in,  11 
to  regulate  location  of  anything  in 

or  upon, 11 

to  keep,  quiet  on  Lord's  Day,           .  11 

lay  out,  establish,  alter,  etc., 96, 98 

establish  building  lines  along, 97 

build  sewers  through, 97 

sidewalks,  crosswalks,  and  gutters  upon,             .  97 

assess  expense  of,  as  benefits, 99, 110 

how  laid  out,  altered,  etc.  (see  public  work),    ....      271,  et  seq. 

regulations  de  assessment  for,  and  sale  of  land,  etc.,         .         .         .99, 110 

improvements  in,  how  made,            .......  243 

commissioners  may  make  ordinary  repairs  in,         ...         .  243 

under  charge  of  board  of  park  commissioners,         ....  242 

powers  and  duties  of  commissioners  concerning,     ....  242 

rules  concerning,  how  made,  and  how  made  public,        .         .         .  242 

accounts  of  expenditures  upon,  how  kept, 243 

penalty  for  injury  to  trees  and  public  property  in,           .         .         .  132 

emptying  drains  upon,  .                  ...         .         .  244 

making  excavations  in,  without  license,         .         .         .  245 

various  acts  in,  forbidden, .  245-247,  253 

what  assemblages  in,  forbidden, 270 

Charter  Oak,  jurisdiction  over, 60 

Park  Bonds,  provisions  concerning,         .                  83-85 

Park  Commissioners,  board  of,  how  constituted, 53,  242 

political  composition  of  board, 53 

how  appointed,  and  term  of  office, 53,  242 

who  ineligible  for  appointment  as, 132 

vacancies  in  board  of,  how  filled, 53 

how  removed, 53 

oath  of,    ...'...         .                  ....  233 

shall  serve  without  pay, 243 

necessary  disbursements  of,  how  paid,     .         .         .         .         .         .  243 

powers  and  duties  of, 242 

may  make  rules  governing  parks, 242 

notice  of  rules  of,  how  given,          ....                  .         .  242 

penalty  for  disobedience  of  rules  of, 242 

how  to  proceed  to  make  improvements, 243 

may  make  ordinary  repairs,     ........  243 

shall  keep  accounts  of  expenditures, 243 


INDEX. 


383 


14 


134 


Park  River,  depositing  rubbish  in  or  upon  margin  of,  forbidden 

control  of,  by  city, 

Passways,  council  may  keep,  free  for  travel,     . 

Paving  of  streets  by  horse  railroads, 164, 186 

Pawnbrokers,  shops  of,  to  be  reported  by  police, 
Peace,  powers  of  council  to  preserve, 
duty  of  police  to  preserve, 
mayor  conservator  of,      . 
powers  of  mayor  as  conservator  of, 
Peddlers,  council  may  require  licenses  of. 
Penalties,  council  may  provide,  for  refusal  of  officer  to  serve, 

city  juror  to  serve, 
prescribe,  for  violation  of  ordinances,    . 
for  violation  of  certain  ordinances  limited  to  fifty  dollars, 

of  ordinances,  how  recovered  and  enforced,  14, 128, 
when  recovered  to  be  for  use  of  city  treasury, 
no  appeal  in  actions  to  recover,         .         . 
appeal  allowed  in  all  prosecutions, 

limitation  of,  in  prosecution  before  police  court,     ...       15 
form  of  action  to  recover,  in  city  court, 

prosecution  in  police  court, 
when  parent,  master  or  guardian  liable  for  acts  of  minor, 
payable  to  clerks  of  courts, 
payable  to  jailor  after  commitment, 

to  be  accounted  for  to  city  treasurer,        .         .         .         .         .26 
for  obstructions,  may  be  four-fold  taxation,     . 
illegal  sale  or  transportation  of  gunpowder, 
neglect  to  serve  writ  returnable  to  city  court 
neglect  to  return  writ  to  city  court,  . 
false  return  to  same,  .... 

injuries  to  water  and  water  works,    . 
failure  of  treasurer  to  make  report  to  controller, 
non-compliance  of  railroad  company  with  act  de  crossings 
obstruction  of  highway  near  covered  bridge  by  trains, 
non-maintainance  of  gates,  etc.,  at  railroad  crossings, 
violation  of  order  forbidding  switching  at  crossings, 
disobedience  of  order  prohibiting  coasting  in  highways, 
disturbing  surface  of  street  without  notice, 
non-resident  auctioneer  acting  without  a  license, 
public  officer  receiving  commission, 

taking  more  than  legal  compensation, 
appropriating  property  and  making  false  entries, 

embezzlement, 

expenditures  in  excess  of  appropriation, 
injury  to  public  buildings,  school-houses,  etc., 

trees,  fences,  and  herbage  on  public  grounds, 
public  property  in  highways  and  parks,    . 


Page. 

256 

102 

10 

309,  310 

267 

ir 

267 

4,268 

4,268 

133 

12 

12 

134, 148 

15, 134 

148,  296 

15 

15 

71 

,  22, 134 

68 

67 

228 

219 

26 

219, 327 

15 

15 

20 

20 

20 

30,  319 

95 

107 

118 

119 

120 

118 

122 

127 

129 

130 

130 

130 

131 

132 

132 

132 


384 


INDEX. 


n 


Penalties  for  tearing  down  or  defacing  notices, 
for  selling  liquor  on  election  day,    . 

discharging  firearms  without  permission, 

improper  use  of  firecrackers, 

tramps,  ...... 

vagrancy,  ...... 

truant  and  vagrant  children,     . 

harboring  boys  escaped  from  reform  school, 

violation  of  ordinances  concerning  buildings, 

letting  or  using  hall,  etc.,  ordered  closed, 

disobedience  of  orders  concerning  buildings, 

neglect  to  provide  fire  escapes,  etc.,  . 

failure  of  gas  company  to  supply  sealed  meters, 

violation  of  by-laws  concerning  leather,  hides  and  skins, 

selling  adulterated  or  skimmed  milk, 

violating  rules  of  health  committee, 

refusing  to  be  vaccinated, 

obstructing  horse  railroad  in  use  of  tracks, 

use  of  horse  railroad  tracks  by  others, 

malicious  injury  to  fire  alarm  telegraph,  . 

injuries  to  water  works,  etc., 175 

disorderly  conduct,  etc.,  at  city  elections, 

illegal  or  double  voting  at  city  elections,  . 

making  false  returns,  etc.,  at  city  elections, 

false  weighing  by  city  weighers, 

selling  coal,  unweighed  by  city  weighers, 

selling  charcoal  in  other  than  city  baskets, 
or  buying  unmeasured  firewood, 
pressed  hay  without  certificate  of  weight 
not  baled  according  to  rule, 

refusing  to  measure  hard  coal  in  city  tubs,  when  required 

using  unsealed  measures,  selling  short  weight,  etc., 

removing  notice  of  condemnation  from  weights,  etc 

using  condemned  weight  or  measure, 

obstructing  sealer  of  weights  and  measures, 

violating  orders  of  port  warden, 

refusal  of  city  jurors  to  serve,  .... 

unauthorized  wearing  uniform  of  fire  department 

injuring  fire  apparatus  or  obstructing  firemen, 

disobeying  orders  of  fire  department  de  highways  during  fires 

giving  false  fire  alarm,       .... 

exposing  building  to  fire  by  certain  acts,  . 

disobeying  fire  marshal  in  erection  of  buildings, 

erecting,   repairing  or  moving  building   without    consent  of 
common  council, 

disobeying  certain  orders  of  fire  marshal, 

giving  exhibitions,  etc.,  without  license,  . 


Page. 

132, 326 
138 
138 
139 
139 
140 

141, 142 
144 
148 
149 
150 
151 
153 
156 
157 

159, 163 
163 
165 
165 
174 

318, 319 
200 
201 
203 
208 
209 
209 
209 
210 
210 
211 
212 
212 
213 
213 
215 
217 
226 
226 
227 
228 
228 
230 

230 
231 
235 


INDEX. 


385 


Penalties  for  unlawful  keeping  or  storing  of  gunpowder, 
for  rescue  of  gunpowder  when  seized,     . 
violating  ordinances  de  gunpowder,  . 
selling  toy  pistol?,  etc.,  to  minors,  without  consent 
violating  ordinances  de  nuisances  in  highways, 
building  contrary  to  ordinance,  four-fold  taxation, 
unlawful  deposit  of  ashes,  etc.,  in  highway, 
neglecting  to  clean  sidewalks,  . 
keeping  disorderly  house, 
injuring  public  buildings,  cemeteries,  etc., 
disobeying  orders  of  health  committee,     . 
prosecuting  certain  kinds  of  business  without  license, 
committing  various  nuisances  injurious  to  health, 
erecting  outdoor  privies  on  streets  having  sewers, 
not  keeping  slaughter  house  according  to  ordinance 
unlawful  removal  of  night  soil, 
failure  to  drain  stagnant  water  when  ordered, 
unlawful  keeping  of  manure,    .... 
failure  to  provide  privy  accommodations, 
depositing  rubbish  in  or  on  margin  of  Park  river, 

Connecticut  river, 
selling  veal  of  young  calves,      .... 
policemen  accepting  outside  pay,  rewards,  etc., 

entering  disorderly  house  except  for  duty, 

interfering  with  elections, 

I  soldier  disobeying  orders  of  mayor, 

obstructing,  resisting  or  refusing  to  assist  mayor,  pol 
unlawfully  assembling  on  walks,  etc., 
extinguishing  public  light, 
pasturing  animals  or  permitting  them  to  run  at  large  in 
highway,         .         .         .         ... 

pound  breach, 

neglect  by  public  driver  to  give  card, 
breach  of  ordinances  concerning  public  carriages, 
driving  public  carriage  without  license,     . 
transporting  dead  bodies  in  public  hack,  . 
refusing  to  sign  certificate  of  death, 
violating  ordinance  de  coflfin  venders, 
neglect  of  registrar  of  births,  etc.,  to  prepare  reports 
not  marking  telegraph  or  telephone  pole, 
defacing  notice  on  telegraph  or  telephone  pole, 
leaving  dead  animal  unburied, 
police  board  may  prescribe,  for  breach  of  its  rules, 
how  effected  by  repeal  of  former  ordinances, 
Penitentiary  (see  city  penitentiary). 
Performances  (see  public  amusements). 

Perjnry,  at  elections, 

before  police  commissioners,  .... 


ice,  etc. 


249, 


255, 


281, 


295, 


Page. 
239 
240 
241 
241 

247,  296 

15,  257 

248 

250,  297 
250 
251 
256 
253 
253 
254 
254 
254 
255 
255 
256 
256 
2ir> 
257 

264,  265 
268 
268 
269 
269 
270 
281 

282,  297 
283 
291 

296,  297 
295 
296 
300 
301 
301 
326 
326 
■  327 
262 
303 


7 
137 


386 


INDEX. 


Personal  Property  (see  property). 

Petitions,  for  permission  to  build  to  specify  what,    . 

Pipe,  carrying  ligiited,  into  barn,  punislied, 

of  water  department,  injury  to,  how  recovered. 
Physician,  penalty  for,  refusing  to  sign  certificate  of  death, 

form  of  certificate  of  death  by,        .... 
Placards,  posting,  without  right,  forbidden. 
Plumbers,  to  report  connections  or  extensions  of  service  pipe, 
Poles,  council  may  prescribe  style  of  telegraph  and  telephone, 

telegraph  and  telephone,  to  be  marked, 

penalty  for  not  marking, 

for  removing  or  defacing  notice  on, 
Police,  council  may  confer  certain  powers  on, 
prescribe  duties  of,    . 
punish  resistance  of, 

appointment  and  term  of  ofiice  of, 

qualifications  of, 

member  of,  removing  from  city,  ceases  to  be, 

not  to  engage  in  other  occupations, 

number  of,       . 

suspension  of, 

eff'ects  of  suspension  of,  . 

removal  from  office  of,     . 

causes  for  suspension  and  removal, 

how  tried  for  ofi"ences, 

oath  of, 

pay  of  regular  and  supernumerary, 

salary  the  only  compensation  of, 

fees  for  serving  process  to  police  court, 

shall  execute  assignment  to  city  of  fees  in  police  court, 

when  and  how  paid,        .... 

when  and  how  may  render  special  service, 

to  make  report  and  return  of  special  service, 

duties  of,  ..... 

may  serve  process  to  police  court,    . 

powers  of,  to  execute  criminal  process 

when,  may  arrest  without  warrant,  .  .24, 136, 139, 141 

duties  of,  in  conveying  persons  to  jail 

authority  of,  in  Charter  Oak  park,  . 

when  may  break  into  houses, 

arrest  of  truants  by, 

to  assist  managers  of  inebriate  asylums, 

arrest  of  boys  escaped  from  reform  school,  by 

to  assist  sealer  of  weights  and  measures, 

to  keep  highways  free  from  obstructions, 

to  report  unlawful  deposit  of  ashes,  etc., 

to  cause  snow  and  ice  ordinance  to  be  enforced, 


267, 


230 

228 

318 

300 

300 

247 

318 

73,174 

325 

326 

32G 

II 

11 

11 

262 

268 

204 

204 

202 

203 

203 

1:02 

1,268 

203 

'3  ;,  208 

203 

205 

23 

205 

205 

204 

204 

08,  278 


130,  205 

142,144,145 

20 

00 

130 

142 

143 

144 

214 

244 

218 

21<) 


INDEX. 


387 


Police  to  collect  penalties  for  violation  of  snow  and  ice  ordinance, 

to  disperse  unlawful  assemblages  on  sidewalks, 

duties  of,  in  enforcing  ordinances  de  public  carriages, 

concerning  water  works, 

duties  and  powers  of  officers  of, 

chief  of,  to  cause  snow  and  ice  ordinance  to  be  published, 

supernumerary,  how  detailed  for  duty,  .... 

station  house,  in  whose  custody, 

forbidden  to  enter  disorderly  houses  except  for  duty, 
interfere  in  politics  and  elections, 

resisting,  a  nuisance  and  misdemeanor,  .... 

abusing  or  refusing  to  assist,  how  punished,     . 

special,  for  Cedar  Hill  cemetery, 

fund  for  disabled, 

Police,  Captain  of,  appointment  and  term  of  office  of, 

suspension  or  removal  of, 

oath  of, 

salary  of, . 

duties  and  powers  of, 

may  suspend  policeman,  when  and  how, 

to  have  charge  of  prisoners, 

Police,  Chief  of,  appointment  and  term  of  office  of, 

removal  of, 

oath  of, 

salary  of,  ......... 

duties  and  powers  of,       .  .         .         . 

power  of,  to  preserve  the  peace,       ..... 
to  enter  houses  of  ill  fame,  etc.,     .... 
to  suppress  riots  and  disperse  disorderly  assemblages, 
\  to  summon  aid, 

has  powers  of  sheriff,  when, 

to  publish  snow  and  ice  ordinance,  .... 

when  may  clear  walks  of  snow  and  ice  and  collect  expense, 

may  suspend  policeman,  ...... 

detail  policeman  for  special  service, 

shall  charge  for  such  special  service,        .... 

shall  keep  account  of  special  service  and  receipts,  . 

to  keep  records  and  roster  of  police  force, 

to  make  quarterly  reports  to  council,       .... 
Police  Commissioners,  board  of,  how  constituted, 

political  composition  of  board  of,    . 

who  ineligible  for  appointment  as,  . 

how  appointed  and  terms  of  office  of, 

vacancy,  how  filled, 

how  removed,  .... 

inayor  presiding  officer  of  board  of, 
may  vote  in  board,  when,     . 


263, 


15, 


Page. 
249 
270 
296 
319 
206,  267 

T4g^ 

266 

266,  267 

268 

268 

245,  296 

269 

60 

146 

262 

262,  263 

233,  268 

263 

266,  267 

263 

266 

262 

262 

233,  268 

263 

266 

269 

269 

268 

269 

269 

249 

250 

363 

264 

264 

264 

266 

'266 

53,  261 

53 

132 

53,  262 

53 

53 

262 

262 


388 


INDEX. 


Police  Commissioners  to  appoint  secretary,  and  who  eligible, 

oath  of, 

shall  serve  without  pay, 

expenses  of,  allowed, 

have  management  of  police  department, 

may  make  rules  for  department  and  fix  penalties,  . 

to  appoint  policemen, 

may  suspend  or  remove  policemen, 

to  try  policemen  for  offences, 

to  fix  price  for  special  service  of  police,  . 
one  to  countersign  pay-roll  of  department, 
may  summon  witnesses,  . 

compel  attendance  of  witnesses  and  punish  for  contempt, 
false  swearing  before,  when  perjury,        .         .         . 
may  sell  unclaimed  property,  ..... 
authority  of,  over  proceeds  of  such  sales, 
powers  of,  de  Hartford  Home,  .... 

secretary  to  keep  records  of, 

to  pay  to  treasurer  proceeds  of  special  service 
salary  of,  . 

Police  Court,  established, 

judge  of,  how  appointed  and  term  of  office,     . 
associate  judge  of,  how  appointed  and  term  of  oflSce, 
substitute  judge  of,  how  designated, 
clerk  of,  how  appointed,  ..... 

prosecuting  attorney,  how  appointed  and  term  of  office, 
special  prosecuting  attorney,  how  appointed,    ' 
city  attorney  may  prosecute  before, 
jurisdiction  of,  .... 

on  Connecticut  river, 

in  Cedar  Hill  cemetery, 

in  Charter  Oak  park, 

de  intemperance, 

de  injuries  to  water  works 

de  false  pretenses, 

de  ordinances  concerning  buildings 

de  fire  apparatus  and  telegraph, 

de  sundry  nuisances, 

c?e  sundry  misdemeanors,  .  15,128,134, 

shall  have  seal,        .... 

may  impose  what  penalty, 15,22,30,128 

complaints  to,  how  and  by  whom  made, 

process  of  coroner  returnable  to,     . 

power  of,  to  issue  process,  summons,  capias,  etc. 

to  issue  bench  warrant,    . 
form  of  complaint  to,  for  violation  of  charter  and  ordinances 
may  try  without  presentment  or  complaint,     .... 


Page. 
262 
233 
263 

263 

262 

262 

262 

262, 263 

263 

264 

265 

137 

137 

137 

146 

146 

188, 192 

262 

265 

285 

21 

21,35 

35,63 

63 

23 

64 

64 

23 

22,58 

22 

60 

61 

22 

30,175 

61 

148 

174 

257,  296 

148, 297 

65 

134,174 

23,64 

14,57 

23 

24 

67 

24 


INDEX. 


conveyed  to  jail 


Police  Court  may  suspend  judgment  in  certain  cases 
may  adjourn  case,    ...... 

bond  on  adjournment  in, 

shall  bind  over,  when, 

appeal  from,  to  be  taken  to  superior  court, 
appeal  allowed  in  all  prosecutions  for  violation 
ordinances,  ....... 

bond  on  appeal,  .         . 

appeal  papers,  when  and  how  transmitted, 
duty  of  clerk  of,  on  appeals  and  binding  over, 
persons  sentenced  by,  to  whom  delivered  and  how 
may  commit  to  reform  school, 

to  industrial  school,     . 
to  Hartford  Home, 
proceedings  of,  in  cases  of  vagrants, 

truants, 
taxable  fees  and  costs  in, 
may  disallow  costs  in  certain  cases, 
clerk  of,  duties  of,    . 

to  collect  fines  and  costs,    . 
to  pay  contingent  expenses, 
to  account  to  city  auditor, 

ways  and  means  committee, 
to  pay  over  moneys  to  city  treasurer  quarterly, 

compensation  of  judge  of, 

associate  judge  of,  ... 

prosecuting  attorney,     . 
special  prosecuting  attorney, 

clerk  of, 

messenger  of,         ...         . 
judge  of,  when  holding  court  of  common  pie 
judge  of,  may  hold  court  of  common  pleas, 
oaths  of  judges  and  officers  of,         ...         . 

Police  Department,  style  of, 

under  direction  of  police  commissioners, 

of  whom  consists,    .  

appointment  of  members  of,   . 

term  of  office,  removal  and  suspension  of  members  of, 

qualifications  of  members  of,  .... 

members  of,  not  to  engage  in  other  business, 
oath  of  members  of,         .....         . 

pay  of  members  of,  ...... 

members  of,  when  and  how  paid,    .... 

office  for  chief,  how  provided,  .... 

prisoners  in  station  house,  how  discharged, 
station  house,  in  whose  custody,      .         .         .         . 


389 

Page. 
24 
24 

.  25, 72 
23 
22,58,71,140,124. 
of  charter  and 


23 


23 


71 
22 

71 

71 

26,72 

26,143 

145 

189 

141 

142 

25,  65 

25 

,  65,  71 

25,  219 

219 

219 

327 

219,  327 

284 

285 

284 

65 

,  67,  284 

284 

64 

325 

233,  234 

261 

262 

262 

262 

262,  263 
264,  268 

264 
233,  268 

263,  264 
265 
266 

266,  267 
266,  267 


300 


INDEX. 


Police  Department,  special  service  of  members  of,  how  rendered,   . 

proceeds  of,  to  whom 
paid, 

(See  police.) 
Police  Judge  (see  judge  of  police  court). 
Police,  Lieutenant  of,  appointment  and  term  of  office  of, 

suspension  and  removal  of,      .         .         .         .         . 

oath  of, -        '.         .         . 

salary  of, 

powers  and  duties  of, 

Policemen  (see  police). 

Policy  Playing,  council  may  enact  ordinances  to  suppress. 

Politics,  of  members  of  commissions, 

policemen  not  to  interfere  in, 
Poll  Tax,  council  may  levy,      .... 
Polling  Places  (see  elections),  (see  city  meetings). 
Pool  Selling,  council  may  prohibit  and  punish, 
Port  Warden,  council  may  provide  for  election  of, 
prescribe  duties  of, 

election  of, 

bond  of,  . 


56, 
56, 


oath  of,    . 

compensation  of, 

duties  and  powers  o 

arrivals  of  vessels  to  be  reported  to 

tolls  to  be  paid  to,   . 

to  keep  record  of  vessels  and  tolls, 

to  make  reports  and  payments, 

may  direct  location  of  vessels  at  public  landings 

to  collect  and  pay  over  dockage, 

penalty  for  violation  of  orders  of, 
Post,  injuring  or  defacing  in  public  places,  a  nuisance, 

placing  in  street  without  license,  a  nuisance. 
Posting  Bills  (see  bill  posting). 
Potter's  Shop,  without  license,  forbidden. 

Pound  Breach,  penalty  for, 

Pound  Master,  duties  and  fees  of,  .... 
Pounds,  regulations  concerning,  .... 
Powder  (see  gunpowder). 

Prisoners,  sentenced  by  police  court,  to  whom  delivered  and  how  con 
veyed  to  jail,         .... 

in  station  house,  in  whose  custody, 

how  discharged,    . 

Privies,  council  may  regulate  location  of, 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor, 

when  nuisances, 

how  constructed, 


Page. 
264 

205 


202 
202,  203 
233,  268 

263 
206, 267 

133,134 

53 

268 


134 

12,13 

12,13 

214 

56 

233 

215,  285 

214,  215 

55 

55 

56 

56 

214 

215 

215 

132,  245 

240 

253 

283 

282 

282,283. 


26,  72 , 

266, 267  i 

266, 267 

13 

128 

244,  253 

253 


INDEX, 


391 


Privies  prohibited  upon  streets  containing  sewer,    . 

contents  of,  how  removed,       ..... 
owner  of  property  to  provide,  .... 

Tresident  of  board  of  aldermen,  mayor  to  be, 

may  give  casting  vote,  . 
acting,  how  chosen, 

powers  and  duties  of, 
of  council  board,  how  chosen,  powers  and  duties,  . 

to  be  member  of  board, 
of  joint  conventions,  mayor  to  be,  .... 
may  give  casting  vote,    . 

of  police  board,  mayor  to  be, 

power  to  give  casting  vote, 

of  street  board,  bond  of, 

of  water  board,  how  chosen, 

bond  of, 

salary  of, 

duties  of, 

to  give  entire  time  to  his  duties, 
to  file  certificate  of  lien, 

rrocess  of  coroner, 

to  city  court,  how  served,        ..... 
under  act  for  suppression  of  intemperance,  how  issued, 
power  of  police  court  to  issue,  .         . 

rto  police  court,  who  may  issue,        .         . 
how  served, 
powers  of  police  to  serve, 
arrest  without,         .         .         .         .         .     24, 13 
police  court  may  proceed  to  trial  without,  when, 
for  arrest  of  truants, 
fees  for,  in  police  court, 
form  of,  for  violation  of  charter  and  ordinances, 
to  recover  fines  and  penalties,    . 
for  ofl'ences  against  private  act,  etc.,  . 
by  mayor,  for  collection  of  assessments  for  benefits, 
of  taxes,     .... 
of  deficiency  of  collector, 

Processions,  council  may  regulate, 

Proclamation  of  result  of  election  of  certain  officers  by  mayor, 
Profanity  (see  swearing). 

Property,  city  may  purchase,  hold  and  convey, 
of  city,  management  of,  vested  in  council, 

council  may  make  ordinances  to  regulate,    . 

to  provide  for  execution 
conveyances  of, 

how  conveyed, 

in  added  territory,  how  taxed,  .... 


Page. 

254 

254 

256 

16 

16 

16, 205 

207 

207 

16 

16 

262 

262 

232 

258 

232 

284 

258 

258 

261 

14,57 

20 

'  22 

23 

23,64 

23 

23,  265, 267 

139,141,142,144,145,269 

24 

141, 142 

.25 

67 

68 

69 

267,  278 

299 

299 

10 

204 

2 

8 
9 
of 

9 

221 

2,  39-42,  166,  167 


392 


INDEX. 


Prosecuting  Attorney,  how  appointed  and  term  of  office  of, 

oath  of, 

salary  of,  .... 

powers  and  duties  of, 

special,  when  and  how  appointed 
compensation  of, 

fees  taxable  for, 
Publication  of  ordinances, 

none  required  of  revision, 

of  ordinances  and  rules  de  cleaning  sidewalks 

of  resolution  laying  out  public  work, 

of  rules  of  water  board,  .... 
Public  Amusements,  council  may  prohibit,  license  and  regulate 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor, 

penalty  for  exhibiting  without  license,    . 

licenses  for,  by  whom  given  and  fees  for, 
Public  Buildings  (see  buildings). 
Public  Carriages,  council  may  regulate  and  license 

charges  of, 
prescribe  penalties  for  violation  of 
nances  de,      ... 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor, 
«    defined, 

licenses  required  for 

provisions  contained  in  licenses  for,        .    '    . 

licenses  for,  how  issued  and  revoked, 
how  recorded,  and  fee, 

term  of  license  of,  .         ...         .         . 

auxiliary  licenses,  when  and  how  granted, 

temporary  licenses  for,     .         ... 

drivers  of,  to  wear  what  badge,        . 

number  of  license  to  be  placed  on, 

drivers  to  carry  and  give  what  card, 

expressmen  to  write  on  card  name  of  articles  received, 

form  of  card,  ........ 

duty  of  drivers  to  receive  passengers  and  baggage, 

public  stands, 

conduct  of  drivers  regulated, 

rates  for  passengers  and  baggage,     .... 

penalty  for  various  breaches  of  ordinances, 
driving  without  license, 
transporting  dead  bodies  in,  . 

duty  of  police  to  report  and  prosecute  violation  of  ordinances 
Public  Exhibitions  (see  public  amusements). 
Public  Grounds  (see  parks). 
Public  Health  (see  health). 
Public  Improvement  (see  public  work). 


Page. 
64,  65,  206 
64, 234 
64,  284 
64 
64 
64 
25,65 
15, 135 
135 
249 
271 
175 
11 
128 
235 
235 


12 

12 


ordi- 


289, 


134 
15,297 
289 
289 
289 
290 
290 
289 
290 
290 
290 

290,  291 
291 
291 

294,  295 
291 
292 
292 

292,  293 

295,  296,  297 

295 

296 

de,  .         296 


INDEX. 


393 


Page. 


Public  Landings  (see  wharves). 
Public  Library  (see  library). 
Public  Officers  (see  officers). 
Public  Parks  (see  parks). 
Public  Peace  (see  peace). 

Public  Places,  council  may  make  ordinances  to  protect  ornaments  in, 
violation  of  ordinances  de  ornaments  in,  a  misdemeanor, 
penalty  for  injury  to  trees,  fences  and  herbage  in,  . 
(See  parks.) 
Public  Use,  council  may  regulate  taking  of  land  for, 

(See  public  work.) 
Public  Weighers  (see  weighers). 

Public  Work,  appropriation  for,  limited, 

council  may  regulate  taking  of  land  for,  .... 

council  may  make  ordinances  for  laying  out  and  altering  highways, 

providing  openings  for  air, 
establishing  building  lines, 
council  may  lay  out,  make  and  alter  highways,  parks,  etc., 
discontinue  existing  highways,  parks,  etc.,  . 
sell,  exchange,  and  purchase  highways, 
establish  building  lines,        .... 
make  openings  for  air,  .... 

cause  low  lands  to  be  drained, 

build  sewers, 

order  and  construct  sidewalks,  crosswalks  and  gutters 

repair, 

levy  taxes  to  pay  for, 

assess  expense  of,  as  benefits, 
create  liens  for  benefits,       .... 
powers  of  city  in  above  matters,  exclusive, 

de,  in  northern  extension,  limited,  . 
powers  and  duties  of  superintendent  of  streets  de, 

of  street  board  de,       . 
streams  may  be  diverted  in  constructing, 
streams  and  dams  may  be  appropriated, 
highways  may  be  drained  on  to  private  lands, 
benefits  and  damages  for  change  of  grade  in  highway,  . 
no  land  to  be  taken  for,  except  by  agreement  or  appraisal, 
benefits  may  be  assessed  upon  persons  or  property, 
regulations  de  assessment  upon  property, 
laiid,  how  sold  for  assessments, 
entire  expense  of,  shall  be  assessed  as  benefits, 
assessments  to  be  made  before  construction,  . 
vote  laying  out  shall  specify,  what, 

be  published,  how, 

be  referred  to  street  board,     •         •         .50, 

street  board  to  act  as  board  of  assessment  and  appraisal,        .     51, 


^1 
128 
132 

11 


8 

11,99 

9 

9 

9 

97,98 

97 

97 

97 

97 

97 

97 

97 


98 

14 

96 

42 

49 

50 

101 

102 

105 

116 

99 

99 

99 

99 

272 

110 

272 

271 

110,  271 

110,  272 


394 


INDEX. 


AGB. 

Public  Work,  street  board  shall  estimate  cost  of  construction,  .        .        110 

street  board  shall  appraise  damages  for  land  taken,         .         .         .        llO 
assess  both  cost  of  construction  and  land  damages 

as  benefits, 110 

may  assess  upon  land  not  abutting,      ....        109 

estates  of  deceased  persons,       .         .        109 

shall  give  notice  before  appraisal  or  assessment,  .        273 

conduct  hearings,  how, 273 

proceed,  how,  in  taking  land,       .         .         .  273-277 

agree  with  land-owners,  if  possible,  .  .  .  273 
procure  from  city  surveyor  a  map,  .  .  .  273 
appraise  damages  after  notice  and  hearing,  .        274 

benefits  not  including  cost  of  construction,  how  assessed,       .  274 

report  of  street  board  to  council,  when  and  how  made,  .         .  274,  275 

powers  of  council  after  report, 275 

when  land  may  be  entered  upon  for  public  use,       ....        276 
damages,  how  deposited  when  land-owner  is  idiot,  minor,  etc.,  276 

benefits  for  cost  of  construction,  how  assessed,        .         .         .  276, 277 

report  of  street  board  to  council,  when  and  how  made,  .         .         .        277 

action  of  council  upon  report, 277 

deduction  from  assessment  for  cost,  when  and  how  made,       .  110, 277 

appeals  from  assessments  and  appraisals  to  be  allowed,  .        .51, 100 

to  whom  taken,        .  100,  111 

when  taken,     .         .  100, 112 

form  of,    .         .         .  100,112 

service  of,         .         .  100, 112 

reapportionment  upon,  100, 112 
additional  assessments  and 

notice  upon,  .         .        113 

any  number  may  join  in,  112 
various  provisions  de,  .  112 
reference  of,  to  committee,  112 
powers  of  judge  on,  .        113 

may  be  heard  by  succes- 
sor of  judge,  .         .        113 
revision    of    decision    of 

judge,   .         .         .  114,115 

costs  on,  .  .  .  .  113 
papers  to  be  lodged  with 

city  clerk, 
clerical  errors  may  be  cvc- 

rected  on, 
when  work  may  proceed, 
pending, 

benefits  for,  a  lien, 104,110,116,278 

when  lien  for,  attaches,         ....     104, 110,  111,  278 
how  lien  for,  continued  and  recorded,  .         .        .  104, 278 


113 


115 


114 


INDEX. 


395 


Public  Work,  benefits  for,  how  lien  for,  foreclosed,  . 

benefits  for,  when  and  how  land  may  be  sold  for,    . 

when  payable,  and  notice, 104, 

discount  for  payment  within  five  days, 

how  collected, 

not  to  be  deducted  from  damages, 
may  be  deducted  from  damages,  . 
sidewalks  and  gutters,  when  street  board  shall  repair  and  construct 

cost  of,  a  lien, 

lien  for,  how  continued  and  foreclosed, 
street  board  in  executing,  shall  conform  to  orders  of  council, 

to  surveyor's  plans, 
improvements  in  parks,  how  made, 

city  highway  book, 

highways  laid  out,  altered,  etc.,  to  be  recorded, 
votes  and  surveys  to  be  recorded,    .... 

Quarantine,  regulations  concerning,  .... 

Quorum  of  boards  of  common  council,      .... 

of  water  board,        ....... 


Eacing"  of  horses  in  streets,  a  nuisance,    .... 
Railroads,  subscription  by  city  to  stock  of,  forbidden, 

not  to  be  built  across  highways  at  grade, 

may  raise  or  lower  highways  at  crossings, 

authority  to  cross  at  grade,  how  given,     . 

new  highway  to  cross  over  or  under, 

I        cost  of  construction  and  repair  of  crossings,  how  borne, 
alterations  in  crossings,  how  made  and  paid  for, 
land  may  be  taken  for  alterations  in  crossings, 
layout  of  highway  near  track,  .... 

how  may  use  highway  near  covered  bridge,    . 
gates,  signals  and  flagmen  at  crossings,    . 
discontinuance  of  switching  at  crossings, 
when  whistling  at  crossings,  etc.,  may  be  omitted,  . 
liable  for  injury  caused  by  structure  legally  placed  by  them  on 

highway, 

penalty  for  non-compliance  with  acts  de  crossings,  . 

unlawful  use  of  highway  near  covered  bridge, 
(See  horse  railroads.) 
Railroad  Commissioners,  may  authorize  grade  crossings,         ...        105 
powers  of,  de  alteration  of  grade  and  other  crossings,      .         .  106, 107 

powers  of,  de  new  highway  crossings, 106 

to  order  gates,  signals  and  flagmen,         ....        119 

to  order  discontinuance  of  switching  at  crossings,  .        120 

to  order  discontinuance  of  whistling,      ....         121 

decisions  of,  to  be  communicated  to  parties  in  interest,  .         .  108, 119, 121 


Page. 
14,  279 
99, 279 

111,  279 
278 

267,  278 
-^99- 
115 
279 
280 
280 
280 
280 
243 
279 
101 
279 

159-161 

16 

29, 258 

245 

35 

105 

105 

105 

106 

106 

106-108 

107, 108 

108 

118 

119 

120 

121 

117 

107, 120 

118 


396 


INDEX. 


Railroad  Commissioners;  decisions  of,  appeal  from, 

penalty  for  disobedience  of  orders  of, 
Rate  Bill,  how  and  by  whom  made, 

clerical  errors  and  omissions  in,  how  corrected, 
collector  to  transmit,  to  successor,   .         . 
Rate  Maker,  how  chosen  and  term  of  office  of, 
when  to  be  appointed  by  city  court, 
compensation  of,      .....         . 

Ratification  of  charter, 

of  certain  acts, 

Reading  Room,  council  may  establish, 

limit  of  tax  for,         ...... 

government  of,         .....         . 

Real  Estate  (see  property). 
Receptions,  appropriations  for,  limited. 
Recognizance,  on  appeals  from  city  to  superior  court, 
before  execution  from  city  court  afcer  appeal, 
for  prosecution  of  actions,  how  taken  in  vacation, 
on  appeals  from  police  court,  .... 

on  adjournment  of  case  in  police  court,  . 
appeal  not  allowed  in  suit  on  special. 
Recorder  (see  judge  of  city  court). 
Records  of  city,  by  whom  kept,       .... 

valid  as  evidence,  . 

of  city  attorney, 

city  auditor, 

common  council,  by  whom  kept  and  preserved, 
courts,  by.  whom  kept,        .... 
clerks  may  amend  and  complete,     . 

fire  department, 

fire  marshal, 
highways,    . 
police  department, 
chief  of  police,  . 
port  warden, 
street  department, 
complaints  to  street  department. 
Reform  School,  police  court  may  commit  to 
truants,  how  sent  to,        .         .         . 
commitment  to,        ...         . 
regulations  de,  .... 

Registrar  of  Births,  Marriages  and  Deaths,  to  execute  the  provisions  of 

city  ordinances 

to  supply  certain  blanks, 

weekly  returns  to,  by  undertakers,  .... 

monthly  reports  of  deaths,  by, 

annual  reports  of  deaths  by, 


Page. 
108, 119, 121 
107, 119, 120 
169,170,298 
172 
171 
170, 298 
168 


205 


298 

31 

51,  54 

123 

123 

123-126 

37 
17 
17 
65 
22 
25,72 
18 

4 

4 

220 

218 

207,  208 

65 

65 

223 

231 

101,  279 

262 

266 

56 

49 

280 

26 

142 

143 

144 

158 
300 
301 
301 
301 


INDEX. 


397 


79 


Registrar  of  Birtlis,  Marriages  and  Deaths,  annual  reports  of  births  by 
penalty  for  neglect,  to  prepare  reports,     .... 

compensation  of,  for  reports, 

Registrars  of  Toters,  to  prepare  registry  lists, 

revision  of  lists  by, 

to  deposit  completed  lists  with  city  clerk,  and  when, 

to  appoint  moderators,  box-tenders,  checkers  and  counters, 

duties  of,  as  to  check  lists, 

•         to  be  present  during  taking  of  vote,         .... 

compensation  of,  and  how  fixed, 

Registration,  of  births,  marriages,  and  deaths,  council  may  regulat 

of  deaths  regulated, 

Registry  Lists,  for  city  election,  how  prepared, 

notice  of  meetings  for  revision  of, 

deposit  of,  with  city  clerk,        .... 
Regulations  (see  rules). 

Rendezvous,  council  may  regulate, 

Rent,  of  office  not  allowed  to  city  officer?,        .... 
Repair,  of  highways  (see  highways), 
of  parks  (see  parks). 

Repeal,  of  former  charter, 

of  former  ordinances  and  its  eff'ect. 
Replevin,  animals  impounded  subject  to,  ... 

Report,  annual,  of  city  attorney, 

city  auditor,        ,         .         . 

city  treasurer, 

committee  on  navigation  of  Connecticut  river, 
fire  commissioners,     .... 
chief  engineer  of  fire  department, 

fire  marshal, 

registrar  of  births,  marriages  and  deaths, 
street  commissioners, 
water  commissioners, 
quarterly,  of  chief  of  police,    .         .         .         .         . 
monthly,  of  park  commissioners,   .... 

port  warden, 

registrar  of  births,  marriages  and  deaths, 
street  commissioners, 
of  city  treasurer  to  comptroller,       .... 

of  fire  marshal,  on  fires,  ...... 

special,  of  street  commissioners,      .... 

water  commissioners,      .... 

of  ways  and  means  committee,  de  treasurer's  account, 

collector's  account, 
accounts  of  clerk  of  police  court. 
Reservation,  of  causes  for  advice  of  supreme  court,         .        ... 


Page. 
;        302 
302 
302 
79 
79 
-79- 
75,76 
76 
76 
204, 285 
158 
300 
6,79 
79 
79 

10 

286 


272 


30 
303 
283 
220 
218 
219 

56 

225 

225 

232 

301,  302 

51 
259 
266 
243 

56 

301, 302 

280 

95 
147 
274,  277 
259 
221 
221 
327 

69 


398 


INDEX. 


Reservoirs,  inspection  of,  how  provided  for,     . 

under  control  of  fire  department  during  fires, 

various  acts  de,  how  punished, 
Resistance  (see  obstruction). 
Resolutions,  how  passed,  .        .        . 

how  approved, 

when  valid  without  approval, 

proceedings  upon  after  veto,    .... 

appropriating  more  than  $10,000,  how  ratified, 

establishing  a  public  work,  hew  proceeded  with, 

certain,  confirmed, 

various,    . 

Return  of  deaths  and  burials,  council  may  regulate, 

regulated,  . 

of  city  court  jurors,  council  may  prescribe,     . 
prescribed, 

of  city  court  process,  when  to  be  made,  . 

neglect  to  make,  how  punished, 
false,  how  punished, 
Revision  of  ordinances  need  not  be  published, 

of  1883  confirmed,  and  when  to  take  efi'ect,     . 

rules  for  construction  of,  .... 

Rewards  for  arrest  of  tramps, 

apprehension  and  correction  of  criminals, 

policemen  forbidden  to  take,  .... 

city  officers  forbidden  to  take, 
Riots,  council  may  make  ordinances  to  prevent  and  quell, 

power  of  mayor  and  chief  of  police  to  quell,  . 
Roofs,  permitting  snow  to  remain  on,  when  forbidden, 
Rubbisli,  deposit  of,  in  street,  when  forbidden,  and  how  regulated, 

neglect  to  remove,  from  highways,  after  notice,  punished, 

street  commissioners  to  remove,  when  and  how, 

keeping  of,  when  a  nuisance,  .... 

not  to  be  thrown  into  or  on  margin  of  Connecticut 

Park  river, 
placed  so  as  to  obstruct  hydrant. 
Rules  of  fire  department,  how  made, 

of  park  commissioners,  how  made  and  posted, 

of  police  department,  how  made,     . 

of  water  department,  how  made  and  published, 

of  water  department, 


50, 


Page. 

153-155 

227 

319 


8 

110,271 

54 

307-314 

11 

300,  301 

21 

216 

20 

20 

20 

135 

303 

304 

139 

166 

264,  265 

287 

11 

4,268 

247 

245, 247 

247 

248 

253 

215 

256 

319 

222 

243 

262 

175 

315  et  seq. 


Sabbath  (see  Lord's  Day). 

Sabbath  Brealiing",  no  appeal  from  conviction  of,  in  police  court,     .         .  22 

Salaries  and  Compensation,  council  may  prescribe,  of  city  officers,          .  13 

assessors,       .         .  298 

judgesof  city  court,  18 


I 


INDEX. 


899 


Salaries  and  Compensation,  council  may  prescribe, 


of  city  attorney, 
clerk  of  police  court, 
water  board  and  its 

officers, 
street  board, 
clerk  of  street  board, 
superintendent   of 

streets, 
port  warden, 
prosecuting  attorney, 
registrars  of  elections, 
rate-maker. 


Page. 
18 
23 


29 
49 
50 


of  officers  not  to  be  increased  during  term, 
associate  judge  of  police  court,  . 
substitute  judge  of  court  of  common  pleas, 
clerks  of  courts, 
special  prosecuting  attorney, 
city  collector,      .         . 
election  officers,  .         .         . 

officers  chosen  to  fill  vacancies,  . 
messenger  of  city  clerk, 
city  weighers,      .... 
inspector  of  fire-wood,  for  measuring  wood, 
weighing  hay,    . 
sealer  of  weights  and  measures, 
members  of  fire  department,      .... 

when  and  how  paid, 
police  department,  •    ,     . 

when  and  how  paid, 

poundmaster, 

registrar  of  births,  marriages  and  deaths  for  reports, 

various  city  officers, 

when  and  how  paid,   . 
to  be  in  full  for  services  and  extras, 
taking  more  than  legal,  forbidden, 

none  to  fire  commissioners, 

park  commissioners, 

police  commissioners,  .... 

water  commissioners,  .... 

(See  fees.) 
Salt^  not  to  be  used  by  horse  railroad  in  streets. 
Sanitary  Measures,  council  may  adopt,    .... 

(See  health.) 
Scliool  House,  penalty  for  injury  to,         .... 
council  may  require  safe  exits  and  entrances  to, 

close  unsafe, 

Scuttle,  when  fire  marshal  may  order,      .... 


50 
56 
64 
79 
298 
35 
63 
64 

65,  66,  67,  284 
64 
169 
204 
206 
208 
208 
209 
210 
212,  285 
223 
226 
263,  265 
265 
282 
302 
284-286 
285 
231, 286 
130 
227 
243 
263 
258 

165, 310 
156 

132 
150 
150 
229 


INDEX.  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

i'AGE. 

Seal,  city  may  have  and  alter, 2 

courts  shall  have,     ..........  65 

Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures,  council  may  provide  for  election  of,    .         13 

prescribe  duties  of,  .  13 

how  appointed, 211 

salary  and  fees  of, 212,285 

oath  of, 233 

duties  and  powers  of,  de  inspection  of  weights  and  measures,    211,  213,  214 

milk,     .         .         .         .  213,214 

shall  devote  whole  time  to  his  duties, 211 

penalty  for  obstructing, 213 

duty  of  police  to  assist,    . 214 

Seizure  of  gunpowder,      .         . 239 

penalty  for  rescue  after, 240 

Set-off,  of  benefits  and  damages, 99, 115 

Sewers,  council  may  make  ordinances  to  lay  out,  establish  and  alter,       .  9 

lay  out,  establish  and  alter, 97 

assess  cost  of,  as  benefits, 99,  100 

powers  of  city  de,  in  northern  extension,  limited,    ....  42 

street  board,  concerning, 50 

streams  may  be  diverted  in  building, 101 

streams  and  dams  may  be  taken  in  building, 102 

penalty  for  injuries  to,     ...         * 132 

(See  public  work.) 

Shayingps,  fire  marshal  may  order  removal  of, 229 

Sheep,  council  may  prevent  running  at  large  of, 11, 134 

regulate  impounding  of, 11 

violation  of  ordinances  de  running  at  large  of,  a  misdemeanor,  246, 297 
driving  drove  of,  through  street,  a  nuisance,  when,         .         .         .        246 

impounding  of,  regulated, 282, 283 

(See  animals.) 

Sheriff  (see  officers). 

Shows,  council  may  regulate, 10 

Sidewalks,  council  may  order  and  construct,     ......  97 

assess  expense  of,  on  persons  and  property,         .  98 

punish  violation  of  ordinances  de,  as  misdemeanor,      134 

powers  of  street  board  concerning, 50 

various  acts  upon,  declared  nuisances,     ....  244-247, 253 

laying,  without  license,  forbidden, 246 

breaking,  how  punished, 246 

planting  trees  within  line  of,  without  license,  forbidden,        .         .        246 

when  and  how  cleared  of  snow  and  ice, 248 

icy,  how  cared  for, 249 

ordinances  de  icy,  how  published,  . 249 

in  front  of  city  property,  how  cleaned, 250 

when  may  be  cleaned  by  police  and  expense  collected,  .  .  .  250 
penalty  for  violation  of  ordinances  de  snow,  ice,  etc.,  upon,     .  249, 297 


INDEX. 


401 


50 


Sidewalks,  duty  of  police  to  remove  obstructions  on, 

what  assemblages  on,  unlawful, 

how  made  and  repaired,  .... 

cost  of,  when  laid  by  city,  to  be  a  lien,    . 

(See  public  works.) 
Sign,  placing,  within  street  when,  a  nuisance, 
Signals,  at  railroad  crossings,  .         .         .         . 
Sinking  Fund,  for  payment  of  water  debt, 
Sinks,  council  may  prescribe  location  of,  .       * . 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor, 
Skins,  council  may  provide  for  inspection  of,    . 

tanning  or  storing  of,  without  license  prohibited 
Slaughter  House,  health  committee  to  inspect, 

how  used  and  kept,  ... 

penalty  for  not  cleansing. 
Sled,  drawing,  on  sidewalk,  forbidden, 

driving,  without  bells,  forbidden,  . 
Sleighs,  driving,  without  bells,  forbidden. 
Snow  and  Ice,  council  may  provide  penalty  for  violation  of  ordinance  de 

penalty  for  violation  of  ordinances  concerning, 
,  violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor,     . 

on  sidewalks,  ordinances  and  regulations  de,  how  published, 

when  and  how  cleared  from  walks,  .         .         . 

how  cleared  from  walks  in  front  of  city  property,  . 

when  chief  of  police  may  clear,  and  how  collect  expense, 

when  to  be  removed  from  roofs^      -         .         .         . 

not  to  be  removed  from  horse  railroad  tracks,  with  salt  brine,  etc., 

when  may  be  removed  from  railroad  tracks,  . 

removed  from  railroad  tracks,  not  to  be  placed  on  sidewalk  or  gutter, 

notice  of  injury  by  reason  of,  when  to  be  given,     . 
Soap,  manufacture  of,  without  license,  prohibited,   .... 
Soldier,  subject  to  call  of  mayor, 

penalty  for  disobedience  of  orders  of  mayor  by,     . 
Special  Election  (see  elections). 
Speed,  of  animals,  vehicles  and  cars,  may  be  regulated  by  council, 

regulations  de, 

violations  of  ordinances  regulating,  a  misdemeanor. 
Sports,  council  may  prohibit  inhuman,     . 

license  and  regulate,    . 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor, 

(See  public  amusements.) 
Stagnant  Water,  when  a  nuisance  and  how  drained, 
State  House  Yard,  council  may  protect,  . 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor. 
State  Reform  School  (see  reform  school). 
Station  House,  in  charge  of  what  oflftcer, 

who  on  duty  at, 

discharge  of  prisoners  from,  .... 


Page. 

267 

270 

271,  279 

280 


246 
119 
88 
13 
128 
156 
253 
252 
254 
254 

245,  247 
247 
247 
134 
249 
297 
249 
248 
250 

.  250 
247 

165,310 
310 
164 
117 
253 
4,269 
269 

10 

245 

128 

11 

11 

128 

255 

11 

128 

266 
267 
266 


INDEX. 


Stay  of  Execution,  on  motion  in  error,    . 

Steamlboat  (see  steam  vessel). 

Steam  Boilers,  council  may  regulate  location  of, 
violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor, 

Steamers  (see  fire  department). 

Steam  Vessel,  speed  of,  regulated, 

tolls  of,  on  Connecticut  river,  ..... 
dockage  of, 

Stone,  duty  of  street  board  to  furnish  horse  railroad  with, 

Store  Sweepings  (see  rubbish). 

Stoves,  use  of,  how  regulated, 

Straw,  when  and  how  fire  marshal  may  order  removed, 

Streams,  may  be  diverted  in  construction  of  public  work, 
appropriated  for  public  use,  . 
obstructing  or  altering,  by  private  parties  a  nuisance, 
supplying  city  water,  defilement  of,  how  prevented, 

Street  Commissioner,  oflEice  of,  abolished. 

Street  Commissioners,  council  may  provide  for  election  of, 

prescribe  duties  of, 
board  of,  how. constituted, 
political  composition  of, 

who  ineligible, 

how  appointed, 

vacancies,  how  filled,  .  .  .  . 
places  of  disqualified,  how  filled, 

how  removed, 

term  of  office  of,      ....        . 

oath  of, 

bond  of  president  of,  ...  * 
compensation  of,  ....  • 
to  keep  records  and  may  appoint  a  clerk, 
compensation  of  clerk  of,  .  .  . 
shall  appoint  superintendent  of  streets,  . 
compensation  of  superintendent  of  streets, 

general  powers  of, 

powers  of,  in  enforcing  ordinances, 
resolutions  de  public  work,  to  be  referred  to, 
to  act  as  court  of  assessment  and  appraisal, 
(For  proceedings  as  such  court,  see  public  works.) 
may  divert  streams  in  constructing  public  works, 
may  regulate  excavations  in  streets, 
to  license  excavations  in  streets, 

trading  upon  highways,  . 
laying  of  sidewalks  and  gutters, 
various  acts,     .... 
to  remove  ashes,  rubbish,  etc., 
to  clear  walks  in  front  of  city  property,  . 


48 


13 

128 

55 

55 

214 

314 

228,  230 

229 

101 

102 

254 

180 

51 

12 

12 

,  53, 132 

53 

48, 132 

48,53 

49,53 

51 

53 

48,53 

233 

232 

49,  285 

49 

50, 285 

49 

50,  285 

50 

280 

50,  271 

51 

101 
122 
245 
245 
246 
245-247 
248 
250 


INDEX. 


403 


•  Page. 

Street  Commissioners  to  collect  expense  of  removing  obstructions,        .        248 

to  construct  and  repair  sidewalks,  gutters,  etc.,  in  certain  cases,      .        279 

when  to  lay  certain  crosswalks, 307 

powers,  de  works  of  Electric  Light  Company,  .         .  194, 195 

Hartford  Steam  Company,        ....         193 
Hartford    and    Wethersfield    Horse    Railroad 

Company,    ' 309-314 

to  file  liens  for  benefits, 104,111,116,278 

to  give  notice  when  benefits  are  payable,         ;         .         .         .  104,110,277 
shall  conform  to  orders  of  council  in  executing  public  works,         .        280 


of  office  of. 


maps  of  city  surveyor, 
may  make  provisional  contracts,      .... 
shall  keep  account  of  expenditures, 

make  annual  and  monthly  reports  to  council, 
keep  a  record  of  complaints,  .        . 

duty  of,  upon  complaints, 

to  furnish  stone  to  Horse  Railroad  Company, 
Streets  (see  highways). 

Subpa^na,  to  compel  attendance  of  witness  before  police  board,  how  issued, 
Substitute,  salary  of,  in  fire  department,  . 

judge  of  police  court,  how  designated. 
Superintendent,  of  fire  alarm,  how  appointed  and  tenure 

salary  of,     . 

»of  streets,  how  appointed,  .  .  .  . 
powers  and  duties  of,  .  .  . 
salary  of, 

Superior  Court,  appeals  from  city  court  to, 

police  court  to,  . 
writ  of  error  from  city  court  to,       . 
Supernumerary,  policeman  (see  police). 

Summoning  City  Jurors, 

Summons,  for  witness  may  be  granted  by  police  court, 

before  police  board,  by  whom  issued,     . 
Sunday  (see  Lord's  day). 
Surveyor  (see  city  surveyor). 

Suspension  of  policeman, 

Swill,  carrying,  on  sidewalk,  prohibited,  .... 

Swimming  (see  bathing). 

Swine,  council  may  prevent  running  at  large  of,      . 

keeping  of,  regulated,       - 

running  at  large  of,  a  nuisance, 

impounding  of,  regulated, 

penalty  for  violation  of  ordinances  de  running  at  large  of, 
Switching  across  highways,  how  forbidden,      .... 
Swearing,  no  appeal  on  conviction  for, 


280 
280 
280 
51,280 
280 
280 
314 

137 
224 

63 

222,  223 

223 

49 

49 
285 

17 
22,71 

70 

21,216 

23 

137 


263 
253 

11, 134 

253 

246 

282,  283 

247,  297 

120 

22 


404 


INDEX. 


Tallow  Chandlery,  health  committee  may  inspect, 

prohibited,  except  by  license. 
Tanneries,  health  committee  may  inspect, 

prohibited,  except  by  license, 
Taxable  Costs  (see  costs). 
Taxation,  council  may  regulate  mode  of, 

of  added  territory, 2,  39,*  40,  41 

commerce  on  Connecticut  river, 
certain  meadow  lands,        .... 
lands  of  water  board,  .... 

four-fold,  of  certain  buildings, 

city  bonds  free  from, 

Taxes,  council  may  lay,  for  city  expenses, 

deficiency  in  water  rents, 
public  library, 
sinking  fund,  . 

support  of  Hartford  Home, 
regulate  duties  of  collector  of,     . 
provide  mode  of  collecting, 
annual,  when  and  how  laid,     .... 
special,  when  and  how  laid,     .... 
for  deficiency  in  water  department,  when  and  how  laid 
annual,  when  laid  by  city  court,       .... 
city  assessment  list,  when,  by  whom  and  how  made, 
clerical  omission  or  mistake  in  assessment,  how  corrected 

on  what  list  laid, 

rate  bill,  how  made, 

ratemaker,  how  appointed  and  compensation  of, 

when  payable, 

discount  for  payment  of,  before  due, 
additions  for  delinquency,      .... 

notice  to  taxpayer, 

by  whom  collected, 

powers  of  collector,  .         . 

accountability  of  collector,       .... 
warrant  for  collection  of,  .... 

form  of,    . 
liens  for,  how  continued  and  discharged, 

foreclosed,  .... 

a  debt,  and  may  be  recovered  in  a  civil  action, 
Tax  List  (see  rate  bill). 
Tax  Warrant,  by  whom  issued,        .... 

form  of, 

Telegraph,  council  may  prescribe  style  of  poles, 

punish  injuries  to  fire  alarm, 

poles,  to  be  marked, 

penalty  for  not  marking,  .... 

penalty  for  defacing  or  removing  marks, 


12c 


'AGS. 

252 
253 
252 
253 

11 

166, 167 

3 

40,42 

■     179 

15,  247 

Slet  seq. 

98 

88 

125 

88 

188 

13 

13 

299 

299 

260 

168 

298 

172 

298 

169, 170,  298 

168, 170,  298 

167 

167 

167, 171 

167 

4,171 

299 

299 

299 

172 

171 

172 

172 


299 
172 
173 
174 
325 
326 
326 


INDEX. 


405 


Telephone,  council  may  prescribe  style  of  poles, 

poles  to  be  marked,         .... 

penalty  for  not  marking, 

penalty  for  defacing  or  removing  marks, 
Tie  "Vote,  for  ward  officers,       .... 

council  may  provide  for  filling  vacancy  in  consequence  of, 

vacancy  in  city  office  in  consequence  of,  how  filled, 

mayor  may  give  casting  vote  in  case  of,  in  board  of  aldermen 

joint  convention, 
police  board, 

president  of  council  board  to  give  casting  vote  in  case  of, 
Tillerman,  of  hook  and  ladder  company,  salary  of,  . 
Tolls,  on  Connecticut  river,      .        .        .         .         . 

payment  in  lieu  of, 

who  liable  for,  .         .         . 

penalty  for  non-payment  of,  and  how  collected, 
Town,  inhabitants  of  city  remain  a  part  of  town  of  Hartford, 
Toy  Pistol,  sale  of,  to  minors,  regulated,  .         •         .         .         . 
Tracks  (see  horse  railroads). 
Trade,  council  may  pass  ordinances  to  regulate, 

elect  officers  for  regulation  of,  . 

remove  from  city  any,  injurious  to  health, 

conducting,  in  street  without  license,  a  nuisance,    . 

various  kinds  of,  prohibited  without  a  license. 
Tramps,  defined, 

arrest  of, 

punishment  of,         ....         . 

special  constables  for,      .... 

may  be  required  to  labor, 

when  deemed  vagrants,  . 
Transient  Persons,  when  deemed  tramps, 

vagrants. 
Treasurer  (see  city  treasurer). 
Trees,  council  may  protect,  in  public  places,     . 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor, 

penalty  for  injury  to,  in  public  places,     . 

setting,  in  line  of  sidewalk  without  license,  forbidden 
Trespasses,  in  cemeteries,  public  buildings,  etc.,  council  may  prevent  and 
punish, 

in  cemeteries,  public  buildings,  etc.,  penalty  for 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a 
misdemeanor, 

on  property  of  water  board,  how  sued  for, 

treble  damages  for, 

on  reservoirs,  forbidden, 

Truants,  punishment  of,  .  .         . 

Truckmen  (see  expressmen). 


Page. 
173 
325 
326 
326 
5,204 
-12- 
204 
16 
16 
262 
207 
224 
55 
56 
56 
56 
30 
241 

9 
13 
156 
245 
253 
139 
139 
139 
139 
140 
140 
139 
140 

11 

128 

132,  245 

246 


141 


11 
251 

128 

28 

30 

319 

142 


406  INDEX. 


Tubs,  for  measuring  coal, 

Turnout,  on  Hartford  and  Wethersfield  Horse  Railroad  Company,  per- 
mission for,  to  be  obtained, 

on  Asylum  street,  regulation  de, 

Turnpikes,  council  may  assume  control  of,        ...        . 

control  of,  assumed, 


Unclaimed  Articles,  how  sold  by  police  department, 

Undertaker  (see  coffin  vender). 

Uniform,  of  fire  department,  how  prescribed, 

penalty  for  unauthorized  wearing  of, 
Unsafe  Buildings,  council  may  make  order  concerning,  . 


24 


Vacancy,  council  may  provide  for  filling  in  city  office, 

in  certain  offices,  how  filled, 

in  city  court,  how  provided  for, 

in  office*  of  collector,        ....... 

in  the  various  commissions,     .         .         .        \ 

in  fire  department,  ........ 

in  office  of  mayor,  who  to  act,  •         .         .         .         . 

Vaccination,  health  commi-ttee  may  make  rules  governing, 

penalty  for  violation  of  rules  de, 

Vagrants,  may  be  arrested  without  warrants,  .... 

when  tramps  to  be  deemed, 

how  punished, 

when  judgment  against  may  be  suspended,     . 
Varnish,  manufacture  of,  without  license,  prohibited. 
Vault,  maintaining,  in  street,  when  a  nuisance, 

Veal,  sale  of,  regulated, 

Vehicles,  council  may  regulate  speed  of,  in  streets,  .         .        , 

violation  of  ordinances  de  speed  of,  a  misdemeanor, 

drawing  of,  on  sidewalk,  a  nuisance,        .... 

blocking  up  streets  with,  a  nuisance,       .... 

penalty  for  violation  of  ordinances  de,     .  '      . 

may  be  removed  from  street  in  case  of  fires,  . 
Vessels,  speed  of,  regulated, 

tolls  of,  regulated, 

regulations  concerning  those  engaged  in  transporting  gunpowder 

lying  at  public  landings. 
Veto,  power  of  mayor,      ........ 

proceedings  after,    ........ 

time  for,  limited, 

Vice,  council  may  make  ordinances  to  prevent, 

violation  of  ordinances  concerning,  a  misdemeanor, 
Vice-President  of  council  board,  when  and  how  chosen, 

to  be  member  of  the  board,  . 
Vinegar  Vard,  keeping,  without  license,  prohibited, 


Page 
211 

310,313 

312 

99 

279 


1 


146 


222 

226 

148, 149, 150 


12 

5,  204,  206 

19 

169 

49, 53 

225 

16 

162 

163 

141,  269 

140 

140 

24, 143 

253 


244 

257 

10 

128 

247 

246 

297 

227 

55 

55 

236 

214,  215 

8 

8 

8 

11 

15 

207 

207 

253 


INDEX. 


407 


Yoie  (see  resolution). 
Voter  (see  electors). 
Voting  List  (see  elections). 
Vouchers,  auditor  may  require  oath  to, 
^    to  be  filed  with  auditor,  . 
for  pay  of  fire  department, 

police  department,  . 


Page. 


129 
118_ 
226 
265 


Walks,  council  may  lay  out,  establish  and  alter, 

powers  of  council  over, 

Warden  of  Port  (see  port  warden). 

Ward  Meetings,  how  warned, 

when  and  where  held,     .         . 

how  conducted, 

who  may  vote  at,     .         .         .         .         .         . 

what  officers  chosen  at  annual,        .  *      . 
Wards,  council  may  provide  for  division  of  city  into, 

number  of, 

boundaries  of, 

Warning  of  city  meeting,  council  may  provide  for,  . 

how  made,  served  and  returned, 
what  to  specify, 

of  council  meeting,  council  may  provide  for,  . 

how  made,  served  and  returned, 
Warrant  (see  process),  (see  tax  warrant). 

bench,  when  police  court  may  issue, 

for  city  and  council  meetings  (see  warning). 
Watch  (see  police). 

JV^ater,  may  be  taken  from  Connecticut  river,  . 

Trout  brook,  etc.,  . 
West  Hartford, 
Avon,  Farmington  and  Bloomfield 

mains  may  be  extended  to  Wethersfield, 

may  be  supplied  to  West  Hartford, 

corruption  of,  how  punished, 

sources  of  injury  to,  how  removed, 

distribution  of,  under  control  of  water  commissioners, 

rates  for,  how  fixed,         .  • 

rates  for, 

applications  for,      • 

duty  of  person  using, 

continuous  flow  of,  forbidden,  .... 

to  whom  chargeable,        .         .         .         .         . 

when  flow  of,  may  be  discontinued  or  shut  off", 

duty  of  plumbers  to  report  connections, 

stagnant,  when  a  nuisance, 

how  removed,  .         ••      • 


.      9,97 
9, 10, 11 


.       12,80,199 

3, 12, 199 

6,  7,  13,  74-79,  200-203 

5,  75,  201 

.  4,5,201,202 


Water, 


3, 42,  45 
.     42-46 

12 

205 

.  80,205 

12 
205, 206 

24 


27,86 

176, 177 

91 

178 

176 

178 

30,  319 

180 

260,  317 

175,260 

320  et  seq. 

315 

316 

316 

316 

317 

318 

255 

255 


INDEX. 


232, 


Water  Bonds  (see  bonds). 

Water  Commissioners,  council  may  prescribe  certain  powers  and  duties  of, 

officers  of,  their  compensa- 
tion, bonds  and  oaths, 
quorum  6f, 
power  of,  to  sue  and  be  sued,  and  under  what  name, 
how  appointed  and  term  of  office  of, 
vacancies,  how  filled, 
how  removed, 

oath  of, 

shall  serve  without  pay,  . 
expenses  of,  to  be  allowed, 
board  of,  how  constituted, 

political  complexion  of, 
quorum  of, 

how  organized,  • 

president  of,  to  be  approved  by  council, 
duties  and  qualifications  of, 
bond  of,        .         .         . 
salary  of,       . 
general  powers  of,   .         .        .        .        . 

may  take  water  from  where, 27, 

lands, 

may  enter  upon  land  for  purpose  of  survey,  etc., 
appraisal  of  lands  taken  by,     .         . 
when  may  proceed  with  work, 
may  use  soil  under  highway,  etc., 

to  restore  highway,  etc., 

damages  for  interruption  of  travel,  when  and  to  whom  payable, 
may  extend  mains  to  Wethersfield, 
supply  water  to  West  Hartford, 
make  contracts,  when  and  how 
make  repairs  to  water  works,  . 
shall  superintend  water  works, 

regulate  distribution  of  water, 

establish  water  rates,  subject  to  approval  of  council,        .  175,  260 

contracts  of,  for  water,  to  be  limited  to  three  years,         .         .         .        260 

may  charge  additions  for  non-payment  of  bills  when  due,      .         .        175 

shall  keep  register  of  persons  using  water,  and  prices  paid,     .         .  88, 260 

pay  certain  expenditures, 88,  259, 260 

collect  water  rates, 260 

to  be  trustees  of  certain  water  bonds, 87, 89, 258 

powers  of,  as  such  trustees,      . 87, 89, 258 

to  apply  avails  of  water  rents,  how, 88, 260 

claims  against,  how  presented,  audited  and  paid,     ....        259 

to  hold  surplus  funds  in  trust, 260 

power  to  use  certain  unexpended  balance, 179 


29 

29 

29 

27,28 

4,27,52,53 

53 

53 

233 

258 

258 

27,52,53,132 
53 
258 
258 
258 
258 
233 
284 

27-29, 175,  259 
86, 91, 176-178 
27 
28 
28 
29 
29 
29 
29 
176 
178 
259 
259 
259 


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Water  Commissioners  shall  keep  books  of  account, 

accounts  of,  how  audited  and  sworn  to,  . 

shall  render  to  treasurer  monthly  account  of  water  rents, 
council  semi-annual  account  of  income, 
report  annually  to  council,     . 
keep  record  of  proceedings,   . 

may  make  by-laws  de  water  works, 

fix  penalties  for  violation  of  by-laws, 

by-laws  of,  how  confirmed  and  published, 

may  bring  action  of  debt  on  by-laws, 

police  court  jurisdiction  of  ofl^ences  against  by-laws, 

exempt  from  certain  regulations  as  to  streets, 

proceedings  by,  to  remove  sources  of  injury  to  water 

control  of,  over  hydrants, 

lands  of,  how  taxed, 

rules  and  regulations  of, 

rates  fixed  by,  .... 

powers  of,  in  various  matters. 
Water  Fund,  council  may  prescribe  power  of  water 

city  may  issue  bonds  for, 

how  managed,  etc.,  .         . 

proceeds  of,  how  kept,  etc.,  ... 

interest  on,  how  met  and  paid,  .  . 

provisions  for  payment  of,       . 
Water  Rates,  how  established  and  altered, 

council  may  prescribe  manner  of  collection, 

by  whom  collected,  .... 

additions  to,  for  non-payment,  authorized, 

contracts  for,  limited  to  three  years,     .   . 

avails  of,  how  applied,     .... 

accounted  for  by  water  board, 

surplus  of,  how  held  by  water  board, 

deficiency  in,  how  made  up  by  tax, 

accounts  of,  how  kept,  audited  and  sworn  to, 

liens  upon  property  and  debt  against  owner, 

liens^for,  how  continued  and  enforced, 

table  of,  .         .  ... 

when  payable,  .... 

who  chargeable  to, 

regulations  governing, 
Water  Works,  council  may  prescribe  power  of 

superintended  by  water  board, 

contracts  concerning,  how  made,     . 

how  repaired,  .... 

claims  for  construction  of,  how  paid, 


water  board  over. 


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88 

88 

260 

^59_ 

259 

175 

175 

175 

175 

175 

122 

180 

179,  227 

179 

315 

320 

315  et  seq. 

29 

.     86-93 

86-93, 258 

86-93,  258 

88,219,260 

88,  219,  260 

175,  260 

29 

260 

175 

260 

88,  219,  260 

.  88,260 

260 

.  8S,260 

88 

.  89,260 

261 

320 

315 

316 

et  seq. 

29 

259 

259 

259 

259 


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Water  Works,  deficiency  in  accounts  of,  how  met,    .         .  ^^^^P'       •  88,  260 

water  board  may  adopt  by-laws  de, 175 

lands  used  for,  how  taxed, 179 

injury  to,  how  punished, 30, 319 

police  court  has  jurisdiction  of  offences  de, 30, 175 

treble  damage  for  injuries  to, 30 

various  acts  de,  how  punished, 319 

where  may  be  established, 27,  86,  91, 176, 177 

how  land  may  be  taken  for, 27-29 

Ways  and  Means,  committee  of,  to  examine  semi-annually,  accounts  of 

treasurer  and  sinking  fund, 221 

committee  of,  to  examine  accounts  of  collector,      .         .         .  221,326 

reports  of  examinations  by,    .......  221,326 

to  examine  quarterly  accounts  of  clerk  of  police  court,  .         .         .         327 
to  refer  to  council,  accounts  of  clerk  of  police  court,       .  .        327 

Weighers,  couacil  may  provide  for  election  of, 12, 13 

prescribe  duties  of, 12, 13 

how  chosen, 208 

bond  of, 208 

to  weigh  coal  and  give  certificate, 208 

to  pay  for  deficiency  in  weight, 208 

fees  of,  for  weighing  coal, 208 

penalty  for  false  weighing,       .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .        208 

Weights,  council  may  pass  ordinances  regulating, 9 

violation  of  ordinances  de,  a  misdemeanor,     .....  15 

how  inspected  and  sealed, .        211 

unlawful,  how  condemned,, 212 

fees  for  testing  and  sealing, 212 

penalty  for  using  unsealed, 212 

condemned, 213 

selling  short  weight, 212 

removing  notice  of  condemnation,  ....        212 

Wharfage,  rates  of, 214 

by  whom  collected, 215 

how  accounted  for,  .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         215 

Wharves,  public,  in  charge  of  port  warden, ,    .        214 

wharfage  at,  ....  .....  214, 215 

speed  of  vessels  approaching,  regulated, 55 

depositing  rubbish  near,  prohibited, 215 

penalty  for  disobedience  of  orders  of  port  warden,         .         .         .        215 
health  committee  to  inspect,    ........        253 

Wheelbarrow,  drawing,  on  sidewalk,  a  nuisance,     .        .         .        .        .        247 

Whistling,  by  engines,  how  regulated, 121 


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court 


Witnesses,  power  of  police  court  to  summon  and  compel  attendance  of, 
before  fire  inquests,  how  summoned  and  paid, 
police  board,  how  summoned  and  paid, 
names  of,  to  be  transmitted  on  appeals  and  binding  over, 
Wooden  Building-s,  may  be  prohibited  within  certain  limits,  . 
Workhouse,  duty  of  keeper  of,  as  to  prisoners  sentenced  by  police 
keeper  of,  to  receive  fines,  etc.,  paid  after  commitment, 
pay  to  city  treasurer  fines,  etc.,  collected. 
Writs,  city  clerk  to  transmit  certain,  to  city  attorney, 
Writ  of  Error,  matters  of  fact  and  law  may  be  joined  in, 

from  city  court  to  superior  court, 

supreme  court,     .... 


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